Jeremy wrote:
] We ask how technology can enhance the individual in order
] to produce organizations that are more creative and efficient,
] and which better support the individual.
]
] We are developing methods to automatically learn the social
] network structure within a group based on data collected using
] unobtrusive, wearable sensors. The questions we are exploring
] are:
]
] - Who talks to whom?
] - How does information flow?
] - How are decisions made?
] - Who are the experts?
] - Can we predict the ramifications of organizational
] disruptions?
] - How can we change the group’s interactions to promote
] better functioning?

The framework and questions would be familiar to any reading in the Sociology of organizations from the past 20 years or so, but prior to this, research was based upon intrusive, labor-intensive, and inacurate journels and questionaires. Use of wearable sensors ought to produce an enormous amount of high-fidelity data for determining social network structure.