Discussion: View Thread

Expand all | Collapse all

Reality Mining AOM 2009 PDW

  • 1.  Reality Mining AOM 2009 PDW

    Posted 06-16-2009 10:36
    Reality Mining Workshop at the 2009 Academy of Management Annual Meeting
    Saturday, August 8, 8 - 10 AM

    In the last decade sensors have become cheaper, faster, and more ubiquitous, enabling automatic collection of data at the millisecond-level time scale in a technique called Reality Mining. The Reality Mining workshop will focus on discussing what new management paradigms can be enabled with this technique, as well as how researchers can immediately use sensing tools to augment their research.

    To give participants a better `feel' for the technology and its potential usefulness, we will arrange for participants to have the option of wearing Sociometric Badges    : name badges with electronics that continuously measure face-to-face interaction parameters (e.g., who is talking, who is nearby).

    Reality Mining research was described by the International Conference on Information Systems 2008 awards committee as "opening a new area of Management Information Systems research." This has generated a large volume of interest in Reality Mining techniques, which is only expected to build as the technology behind this methodology matures.  Come and learn about this groundbreaking new research methodology.

    To express your interest in participating, please e-mail the organizers at reality-workshop@media.mit.edu.
     
    Organizers:
    Benjamin N. Waber, MIT Media Laboratory
    Lynn Wu, MIT Sloan School of Management

    Confirmed Discussants:
    Sinan Aral, NYU
    Erik Brynjolfsson, MIT
    Peter Gloor, MIT
    David Lazer, Harvard
    Alex "Sandy" Pentland, MIT

    Workshop website: http://web.media.mit.edu/~bwaber/aom_workshop/ 
    --   Benjamin N. Waber MIT Media Lab | Human Dynamics Group Highlands & Islands Enterprise Fellow Harvard University School of Government Research Fellow E-Mail: bwaber@media.mit.edu Website: www.media.mit.edu/~bwaber