Microsoft is facing criticism for its new “Productivity Score”
technology, which can measure how much individual workers use email, chat
and other digital tools. But it turns out the company has even bigger
ideas for using technology to monitor workers in the interest of
maximizing organizational productivity. Newly surfaced Microsoft patent
filings describe a system for deriving and predicting “overall quality
scores” for meetings using data such as body language, facial
expressions, room temperature, time of day, and number of people in the
meeting. The system uses cameras, sensors, and software tools to
determine, for example, “how much a participant… Read More
Microsoft’s “Meeting Insight Computing System,” as described in patent
filings, would use cameras, sensors, and software tools to monitor the
people and the conditions in a meeting, as well as post-meeting surveys,
to create a “quality score” for the meeting. (Microsoft Diagram, via
USPTO) …
