Novel imaging tool for understanding face-to-face behaviors

1. Micro-scale Ecometrics: Digital Imaging of Social Interaction
W.
Michael
Johnson
Poli&cal
Science
Adjunct
Macualay
Honors
College
CSI/CUNY
Spitzer
School
of
Arch.
CCNY/CUNY
ESS / Digital Sociology, Boston March 17-18, 2016

2. “There’s too much value in a in-person meeting…
face-to-face is like a river of information”
“Group” Study” Charles Duhigg, NYT, 02.28.2026
ESS / Digital Sociology, Boston March 17-18, 2016

3. “We are commingling our cognitive space with the technological.”
Fitz, Nicholas S, and Peter B Reiner. “Time to Expand the Mind.” Nature 531.3 March (2016): S9
“Multi-modal analysis of video data and face-to-face interaction” National Centre for Research Methods (2013)
ESS / Digital Sociology, Boston March 17-18, 2016

4. “As the Data Deluge Grows, Companies Are Rethinking Storage ” Quentin Hardy, NYT, 03.15.2016
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A
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(2016):
568
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“No one can look at all of their data anymore. They need
algorithms just to decide what to look at.”

5. “For most the impulse to flee from problem-driven theory
to method-driven theory proves irresistible.”
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Ian Shapiro, Flight from Reality in the Human Sciences, 2010, p. 22

6. “The process of dividing up a system into separate
elements for analysis assumes that the separation is
feasible in both principle and approach.
This assumption fails spectacularly for complex
sociotechnical systems.”
ESS / Digital Sociology, Boston March 17-18, 2016
Carayon, Pascale et al. “Advancing a Sociotechnical Systems Approach to Workplace Safety –
Developing the Conceptual Framework.” Ergonomics 0139.April (2015): 1–17.

7. “We live in places that have social meanings and structured
differences inscribed all over them.”
ESS / Digital Sociology, Boston March 17-18, 2016
Sampson, Robert, The Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect,
University of Chicago Press, 2012.
p, 374: on neighborhood choice. p. 182: on neighborhood collective efficacy
“The collective nature and spatial concentration of such
phenomena have been overlooked”

8. ESS / Digital Sociology, Boston March 17-18, 2016
iPhone 4 +oSnap ap+ matlab image processing code

9. ESS / Digital Sociology, Boston March 17-18, 2016
Johnson, W Michael, Danuta A Nitecki, et. al.. Peer Engagement as a Common Resource. Ann Arbor, MI:
The Society of College and University Planners, 201.

10. Project funded by:
The Hideo Sasaki Foundation
Drexel University
Danuta Nitecki Dean of Libraries, Professor, Drexel University
Michael John Khoo Drexel University
Ronak Nathani Drexel University
Sundar Ram Swaminathan Drexel University
ESS / Digital Sociology, Boston March 17-18, 2016
Johnson, W Michael, Danuta A Nitecki, et. al.. Peer Engagement as a Common Resource. Ann Arbor, MI:
The Society of College and University Planners, 201.