sociometer

English

Etymology

From socio- +‎ -meter.

Noun

sociometer (plural sociometers)

1. (psychology, sociology) A theoretical gauge of interpersonal relationships, typically realised as self-esteem.
2. (computing) A wearable sensor device to measure face-to-face interactions of people.
   • 2012, N. Katherine Hayles, How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 102:

     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.