sociometer

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noun

A theoretical gauge of interpersonal relationships, typically realised as self-esteem.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nounsociometer (plural sociometers)

plural sociometers

  1. human sciencesA theoretical gauge of interpersonal relationships, typically realised as self-esteem.
  2. computingA 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

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