Sensible organizations: Technology and methodology for automatically measuring organizational behavior

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 43-55

  Olguín Olguín, Daniel ^a   Waber, Benjamin N ^a   Kim, Taemie ^a   Mohan, Akshay ^a   Ara, Koji ^b   Pentland, Alex ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Organizational behavior; Social computing; Sociometric badges; Wearable computing

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; INTERNET; JOB SATISFACTION; MANAGEMENT; WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

AUTOMATIC MEASUREMENTS; BETWEENNESS; E-MAIL COMMUNICATIONS; FACE-TO-FACE INTERACTIONS; GROUP BEHAVIORS; GROUP INTERACTIONS; HUMAN BEHAVIORS; LARGE GROUPS; NEGATIVE CORRELATIONS; ON BODIES; ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR; ORGANIZATIONAL DYNAMICS; ORGANIZATIONAL SETTINGS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY LEVELS; PHYSICAL PROXIMITIES; SOCIAL COMPUTING; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIOMETRIC BADGES; WEARABLE COMPUTING; WEARABLE COMPUTING PLATFORMS;

GROUP TECHNOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; CYBERNETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INSTRUMENTATION; JOB SATISFACTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOMETRIC STATUS;

ALGORITHMS; CYBERNETICS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JOB SATISFACTION; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOMETRIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 61549141392     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2008.2006638     Document Type: Article

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