Tag: wearable technology

Cellphone? Fitbit? Apple Watch? Prof. Andrew Knight says this is just the beginning of the wearable technology revolution. St. Louis Magazine talks to Knight in this blog post about the future of wearable devices that will do more than count steps and make phone calls. Knight uses wearable tech in his research to gauge interactions between workers, measure creativity of teams and more.  Watch this video.

Pictured above are Professors Markus Baer and Andrew Knight discussing the sensors used in their research that measured the creativity of groups that stand up versus sit down at meetings.

Olin students have been participating in a research project to test the usefulness of wearable technology that gathers data on how they engage with team members and in interviews. Karren Watkins, MBA’13, is a research associate and director of Project Sense at Olin and explains the project in an article (pages 72-73) in the March/April issue of Biz Ed magazine.

Andrew Knight, assistant professor of organizational behavior, conceptualized and initiated Project Sense and talked about it in this Meet the Professor video. The Center for Experiential Learning is supporting the project.

Image: Prof. Knight with Sociometers