Sociometric Feedback: Bringing Social Signals to Telepresence

We propose using Sociometric badges to automatically measure social signals in distributed collaboration. Often distributed collaboration is more difficult than co-located collaboration as many of the social signals are lost. Sociometric badges can help distributed group members to have a better understanding of the members that are not co-present. We share examples of social signal visualizations in both shortterm and long-term collaboration settings. We believe that automatic measurement of social signals can help distributed group collaboration by enhancing the telepresence of team members.