***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/ ***** > I was wondering if anyone was aware of any work done to record human > conversations (like at a conference) for SNA? I know there has been > work done analyzing videos, but I was looking for other approaches. > =20 > Thanks! > =20 > Alex Kilpatrick There is some early work being done in this area by Sandy Pentland and his students at the Media Lab, in a project called "Reality Mining". http://reality.media.mit.edu/ They are having people wear devices that record conversation and also annotate it with contextual information. Part of their analysis is to explore social network formations. - Judith Donath _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/). To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message.