Sociometric Badges: State of the Art and Future Applications

Sociometric badges are wearable electronic badges capable of automatically measuring the amount of face-toface interaction, conversational time, prosodic style, physical proximity to other people, and physical activity levels, using social signals derived from vocal features, body motion, and relative location. We present the prior and current state-of-the art in this area of wearable computing and propose several applications that haven’t been fully exploited.