Peter Gloor

Peter Gloor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | MIT · MIT Center for Collective Intelligence

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Position
  • Teaching a course on COINs (Collaborative Innovation Networks) jointly at MIT
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  • SCAD
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  • HUT(TKK
Education
March 1984 - July 1986
University of Zurich
Field of study
  • Math & Comp. Science

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Publications (403)
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We describe a system for identifying dog emotions based on dogs’ facial expressions and body posture. Towards that goal, we built a dataset with 2184 images of ten popular dog breeds, grouped into seven similarly sized primal mammalian emotion categories defined by neuroscientist and psychobiologist Jaak Panksepp as ‘Exploring’, ‘Sadness’, ‘Playing...
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We describe a system for identifying dog emotions based on the dogs' facial expressions and body posture. Towards that goal, we built a dataset with 2184 images of ten popular dog breeds, grouped into seven similarly sized primal mammalian emotion categories defined by neuroscientist and psychobiologist Jaak Panksepp that are ‘Exploring’, ‘Sadness’...
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Long Covid is a chronic disease that affects more than 65 million people worldwide, characterized by a wide range of persistent symptoms following a Covid-19 infection. Previous studies have investigated potential risk factors contributing to elevated vulnerability to Long Covid. However, research on the social traits associated with affected patie...
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This study investigates the impact of real-time emotional feedback on the quality of teamwork conducted over videoconferencing. We developed a framework that provides real-time feedback through a virtual mirror based on facial and voice emotion recognition. In an experiment with 28 teams (84 participants), teams collaborated over Zoom (version 5.16...
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This study investigates the impact of real-time emotional feedback on the quality of teamwork conducted over videoconferencing. We developed a framework that provides real-time feedback through a virtual mirror based on facial and voice emotion recognition. In an experiment with 28 teams (84 participants), teams collaborated over Zoom to set up a v...
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This paper explores if plants are capable of responding to human movement by changes in their electrical signals. Toward that goal, we conducted a series of experiments, where humans over a period of 6 months were performing different types of eurythmic gestures in the proximity of garden plants, namely salad, basil, and tomatoes. To measure plant...
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Current methods for assessing individual well-being in team collaboration at the workplace often rely on manually collected surveys. This limits continuous real-world data collection and proactive measures to improve team member workplace satisfaction. We propose a method to automatically derive social signals related to individual well-being in te...
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This paper explores if plants are capable of responding to human movement by changes in their electrical signals. Towards that goal we conducted a series of experiments, where humans over a period of 6 months were performing different types of eurythmic gestures in proximity of garden plants, namely salad, basil, and tomatoes. To measure plant perc...
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Recent advances in artificial intelligence combined with behavioral sciences have led to the development of cutting-edge tools for recognizing human emotions based on text, video, audio, and physiological data. However, these data sources are expensive, intrusive, and regulated, unlike plants, which have been shown to be sensitive to human steps an...
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Recent advances in artificial intelligence combined with behavioral sciences have led to the development of cutting-edge tools for recognizing human emotions based on text, video, audio, and physiological data. However, these data sources are expensive, intrusive, and regulated, unlike plants which have been shown to be sensitive to human steps and...
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Well-being is one of the pillars of positive psychology, which is known to have positive effects not only on the personal and professional lives of individuals but also on teams and organizations. Understanding and promoting individual well-being is essential for staff health and long-term success, but current tools for assessing subjective well-be...
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Current methods for assessing individual well-being in team collaboration at the workplace rely often on manually collected surveys. This limits continuous real-world data collection and proactive measures to improve team member workplace satisfaction. We propose a method to automatically derive social signals related to individual well-being in te...
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Many factors influence well-being and health in everyday life. While people are aware of traffic delays or continuous work stress, other factors influence the state of the body on a subconscious level. The built environment subconsciously influences human physiology during every second of life, which has a cumulative long-term effect. The idea of b...
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Well-being is one of the pillars of positive psychology, which is known to have positive effects not only on the personal and professional lives of individuals, but also on teams and organizations. Understanding and promoting individual well-being is essential for staff health and long-term success, but current tools for assessing subjective well-b...
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A multitude of factors influence our well-being and health in everyday life. Some of which we are totally aware like a delayed train, car exhausts, or continuous work stress. Other factors influence us on a subconscious level, making them, however, not less important to address. One of these factors is the built environment surrounding us almost ev...
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This paper describes the preliminary results of measuring the impact of human body movements on plants. The scope of this project is to investigate if a plant perceives human activity in its vicinity. In particular, we analyze the influence of eurythmic gestures of human actors on lettuce and beans. In an eight-week experiment, we exposed rows of l...
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This quantitative research of 281 online hackathon participants made it possible to analyze the hackathon’s mechanisms in depth, broaden an understanding of how its elements affect the participants’ performance, and understand human–computer interaction. It also offers insights that may improve invention development methods in general.
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This paper presents novel preliminary research that investigates the relationship between the flow of a group of jazz musicians, quantified through multi-person pose synchronization, and their collective emotions. We have developed a real-time software to calculate the physical synchronicity of team members by tracking the difference in arm, leg, a...
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This paper presents preliminary research that investigates the relationship between the flow of a group of jazz musicians, quantified through multi-person pose synchronization, and their collective emotions. Building upon previous studies that measured the physical synchronicity of team members by tracking their body movements and measuring the dif...
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This paper describes preliminary results of measuring the impact of human body movements on plants. In particular, we analyze the influence of eurythmic gestures of human actors on lettuce and beans. In an eight week experiment, we exposed rows of lettuce and beans to weekly eurythmic movements (similar to Qi Gong) of a eurythmist, while at the sam...
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Coolhunting means finding emergent trends by finding the hidden Collaborative Innovation Networks and their discussion topics. • Quantum science and quantum computing requires deep expertise in multiple fields such as physics, computer science, mathematics, and engineering. Coolhunting with Galaxyadvisors' Galaxyscope, QuantumBasel will find hidden...
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In diesem Kapitel illustrieren wir den Einsatz von KI-Algorithmen anhand von zwei Beispielprojekten. In einem Projekt geht es um das Erkennen von Persönlichkeitseigenschaften durch Anschauen eines Videos und im anderen um das Erkennen von Persönlichkeitseigenschaften und Motiven auf der Basis von verfassten Geschichten. Die beiden Autoren schätzen...
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Da die KI-Software-Werkzeuge mittlerweile sehr mächtig sind und eine Benutzeroberfläche ähnlich zu Excel anbieten, ist die Gefahr groß, dass mithilfe dieser Tools Vorhersagen und Berechnungen angestellt werden, die falsch sind oder mit einer enormen Ungenauigkeit einhergehen. Einer der häufigsten Fehler, den KI-Noviz*innen machen, ist «Overfitting...
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Gemeinhin wird das Jahr 1956, noch genauer die Sommerkonferenz im Juli und August 1956 am Dartmouth College in New Hampshire als der Start der KI bezeichnet. John McCarthy und Marvin Minsky erhielten von der Darpa finanzielle Unterstützung für die Konferenz, in ihrem Projektantrag verwendeten sie das erste Mal den Begriff „Artificial Intelligence“....
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Algorithmen der KI gehen vom Konzept der „absoluten Wahrheit“ (ground truth) aus. In unserer von Menschen geschaffenen Umwelt gibt es jedoch keine absolute Wahrheit, weil Wahrheit vom Individuum und vom spezifischen Kontext abhängt. In früheren Arbeiten wurde diese individualisierte Umwelt als „alternative Realität“ bezeichnet, da ein Individuum ab...
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Die Psychologie setzt sich mit dem Beschreiben und Erklären des menschlichen Erlebens und Handelns auseinander. Manchmal – und das ist gerade für psychologische Anwendungsfelder wie die Personalauswahl oder -entwicklung verlockend – wird darüber hinaus auch versucht, das menschliche Erleben und Handeln vorherzusagen. Entsprechend sollte ein psychol...
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Dieses Kapitel beinhaltet abschliessende Gedanken der beiden Autoren zum Thema KI-Algorithmen in der Psychologie.
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The productivity of work meetings is mostly assessed through post-hoc questionnaires. These questionnaires are impractical as they require additional time after the meeting has ended. Thus, measuring meeting productivity in a non-intrusive manner is of practical and theoretical importance. Extending research on physiological arousal and the healthy...
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Can we really “read the mind in the eyes”? Moreover, can AI assist us in this task? This paper answers these two questions by introducing a machine learning system that predicts personality characteristics of individuals on the basis of their face. It does so by tracking the emotional response of the individual’s face through facial emotion recogni...
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We introduce “entanglement”, a novel metric to measure how synchronized communication between team members is. This measure calculates the Euclidean distance among team members’ social network metrics timeseries. We validate the metric with four case studies. The first case study uses entanglement of 11 medical innovation teams to predict team perf...
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Everybody claims to be ethical. However, there is a huge difference between declaring ethical behavior and living up to high ethical standards. In this paper, we demonstrate that "hidden honest signals" in the language and the use of "small words" can show true moral values and behavior of individuals and organizations and that this ethical behavio...
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Do employees with high ethical and moral values perform better? Comparing personality characteristics, moral values, and risk-taking behavior with individual and team performance has long been researched. Until now, these determinants of individual personality have been measured through surveys. However, individuals are notoriously bad at self-asse...
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This paper describes an emotion recognition system for dogs automatically identifying the emotions anger, fear, happiness, and relaxation. It is based on a previously trained machine learning model, which uses automatic pose estimation to differentiate emotional states of canines. Towards that goal, we have compiled a picture library with full body...
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Purpose The purpose of the research is to conduct an exploratory investigation of the material handling activities of an Italian logistics hub. Wearable sensors and other smart tools were used for collecting human and environmental features during working activities. These factors were correlated with workers' performance and well-being. Design/me...
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Can we really "read the mind in the eyes"? Moreover, can AI assist us in this task? This paper answers these two questions by introducing a machine learning system that predicts personality characteristics of individuals on the basis of their face. It does so by tracking the emotional response of the individual's face through facial emotion recogni...
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Purpose The purpose of the research is to conduct an exploratory investigation of the material handling activities of an Italian logistics hub. Wearable sensors and other smart tools were used for collecting human and environmental features during working activities. These factors were correlated with workers' performance and well-being. Design/met...
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We introduce "entanglement", a novel metric to measure how synchronized communication between team members is. This measure calculates the Euclidean distance among team members' social network metrics timeseries. We validate the metric with four case studies. The first case study uses entanglement of 11 medical innovation teams to predict team perf...
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Wearable technology is an emerging field that has the potential to revolutionize healthcare. Advances in sensors, augmented reality devices, the internet of things, and artificial intelligence offer clinically relevant and promising functionalities in the field of surgery. Apart from its well-known benefits for the patient, minimally invasive surge...
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Creating intelligent systems capable of recognizing emotions is a difficult task, especially when looking at emotions in animals. This paper describes the process of designing a “proof of concept” system to recognize emotions in horses. This system is formed by two elements, a detector and a model. The detector is a fast region-based convolutional...
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As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to rage worldwide, the United States has become the most affected country, with more than 34.1 million total confirmed cases up to 1 June 2021. In this work, we investigate correlations between online social media and Internet search for the COVID-19 pandemic among 50 U.S. states. By collecting t...
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Recently, the flow state, a state in which individuals perform at the peak of their ability and are completely immersed in the task while experiencing a state of elatedness, has been the subject of active research. We introduce a novel approach of using convolutional neural networks to recognize flow in live performing musicians from analyzing thei...
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As a powerful and low-cost instant information dissemination platform, large-scale online social networks (OSNs) play a pivotal role in shaping our modern information age. The efficient detection of wide-spreading information in OSNs is very important in many aspects including public opinion supervision, social governance, stock markets, counter-te...
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In the information economy, individuals' work performance is closely associated with their digital communication strategies. This study combines social network and semantic analysis to develop a method to identify top performers based on email communication. By reviewing existing literature, we identified the indicators that quantify email communic...
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Internet and social media offer firms novel ways of managing their marketing strategy and gain competitive advantage. The groups of users expressing themselves on the Internet about a particular topic, product, or brand are frequently called a virtual tribe or E-tribe. However, there are no automatic tools for identifying and studying the character...
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify the factors influencing the growth of healthcare virtual communities of practice (VCoPs) through a seven-year longitudinal study conducted using metrics from social-network and semantic analysis. By studying online communication along the three dimensions of social interactions (connectivity, intera...
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This study explores the determinants of popularity within friendship and advice networks. We involved almost 200 college students in an experiment to predict how personality traits, self-monitoring, creativity, intelligence, energy, and beauty influence the development of friendship and advice networks. Our results indicate that physical attractive...
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Creating intelligent systems capable of recognizing emotions is a difficult task, especially when looking at emotions in animals. This paper describes the process of designing a "proof of concept" system to recognize emotions in horses. This system is formed by two elements, a detector and a model. The detector is a faster region-based convolutiona...
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According to Freud "words were originally magic and to this day words have retained much of their ancient magical power". By words, behaviors are transformed and problems are solved. The way we use words reveals our intentions, goals and values. Novel tools for text analysis help understand the magical power of words. This power is multiplied, if i...
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We measure and predict states of Activation and Happiness using a body sensing application connected to smartwatches. Through the sensors of commercially available smartwatches we collect individual mood states and correlate them with body sensing data such as acceleration, heart rate, light level data, and location, through the GPS sensor built in...
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The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of board member composition and board members' social media presence on the performance of startups. Using multiple sources, we compile a unique dataset of about 500 US-based technology startups. We find that startups with more venture capitalists on the board and whose board members are active on...
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We propose a novel method for finding the most innovative people in an organization, using email to analyze structure and dynamics of the organization's online communication. To illustrate our approach, we analyzed the email archive of 2000 members of the R&D department of a US multinational company. We use metrics of social network analysis extend...
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This paper investigates the research question if senders of large amounts of irrelevant or unsolicited information - commonly called "spammers" - distort the network structure of social networks. Two large social networks are analyzed, the first extracted from the Twitter discourse about a big telecommunication company, and the second obtained from...
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We investigate the impact of a novel method called "virtual mirroring" to promote employee self-reflection and impact customer satisfaction. The method is based on measuring communication patterns, through social network and semantic analysis, and mirroring them back to the individual. Our goal is to demonstrate that self-reflection can trigger a c...
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We explore what benefits network position in online business social networks like LinkedIn might confer to an aspiring entrepreneur. We compare two network attributes, size and embeddedness, and two actor attributes, location and diversity, between virtual and real-world networks. The promise of social networks like LinkedIn is that network friends...