sociometer
nounEtymology From socio- + -meter.
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Human sciences, Psychology, Sciences, Social science, Sociology A theoretical gauge of interpersonal relationships, typically realised as self-esteem.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A wearable sensor device to measure face-to-face interactions of people.
- Capable of sensing subtle movements as well as other unconscious and nonconscious signals, the sociometer creates, in effect, a feedback loop between consciousness and other levels of neuronal responses.2012, N. Katherine Hayles, How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 102: