SIOP 2011 Coverage: Schedule Planning | Junior Faculty Consortium
Day 1 Live Blog | Day 1 Summary | Day 2/3 Live Blog | Day 2/3 Summary
This is a capture of my (@rnlanders) Twitter feed on the second and third days of the conference. Day 2 summary will be combined with the Day 3 summary, since each day was a little light on tech.
Day 2 Twitter Feed
9:35AM Day 2 at #SIOP11 begins with a training poster session
11:12AM how I-O is making a difference – work on national intelligence related to cybersecurity #SIOP11
11:16AM – IOs role in India
Nevermind… IOs role in American Indian affairs (part of the dept of interior). Didn’t connect “Indian” to native Americans
RT Sick of hearing about “important” moderators that have an r-squared change of .01. #SIOP #SIOP11
@ErikaWendt @workpsy is there a tweetup today?
US Navy has a Cyberspace Ops unit which includes online recruiting… neat
The #navy uses live chat, Facebook, email for online recruitment… 700-800 chats + 100 emails per day with low Sundays
145k chats per year Navy, 252k chats Air Force, 202k chats Army… Amazing volume
MyNavySpace as corporate social network; members using it tend to be retained – 26% of recruits don’t show up for basic, 6% MNS users dont
Now another piece on applicant reactions to websites. H1 is that nav bar at top of site is best. A bit atheoretical, eh?
@lukasneville Too much of a good thing!
@lukasneville and I do think we can do better than “top is best, left is okay”
Day 3 Twitter Feed
At serious games panel at #SIOP11
@WorkPsy talking about being careful to distinguish serious games and gameification #siop11
computer based simulations as a logical approach to learning and assessment for computer-centric jobs #siop11
@WorkPsy on using peer assessment within a game context to get creativity/innovation scores from games #siop11
serious game assessment is limited by current artificial intelligence tech available – human assessors still needed #siop11
games as a way to assess “real behaviors” b/c employees forget they are being assessed…not sure stealth assessment is so desirable #siop11
@mrand308 it is bad from a measurement perspective too…even if you are getting more information on some folks, you don’t know about others
Is there evidence of transfer from 3D immersive games? Short answer: no, not really. But we’re getting there. #SIOP11
gender, age differences in responses to video vs avatar based SJT… uhoh #siop11
getting a smidge heated in discussion of value of serious games… Several challengers in the audience #siop11
@LenaOgan we actually do know a little, but most of the research is on children
SIOP 2011 Coverage: Schedule Planning | Junior Faculty Consortium
Day 1 Live Blog | Day 1 Summary | Day 2/3 Live Blog | Day 2/3 Summary
If you’re new here (I always get a bit of a surge of readers around SIOP), you’ll know that my main interests surround the use of technology in IO/OBHR. As a result, “technology” generally describes the sessions that I attend at the SIOP conference.
This year, academic sessions on technology seem to be a bit light. I’m not sure why. But it does mean that I am not attending as much as usual (and have less to talk about!).
Today, I started with an invited talk by Andrea Goldberg on social media and its evolving role in business (and by extension, I/O Psychology). Andrea is an excellent speaker, and as usual, I found myself pondering social media and its quickly evolving role in organizations. Will I/O lead this revolution or be led?
I continued on to my own symposium on current research on multi-user virtual environments (like Second Life). It was well-attended for an event on a new technology. I gave my own introduction on what MUVEs are, their history, and some general examples of the kinds of uses to which they might be put. Sam Kaminsky presented fascinating research from Tara Behrend’s lab on the role of virtual worlds in recruiting, the takeaway being: virtual worlds are quite distracting and make it more difficult to remember information about an organization. My own graduate student, Rachel Johnson, then presented the potential value of virtual worlds when designing training programs. Thomas Whelan then presented his work in the lab of Lynda Aiman-Smith on teamwork in virtual worlds. Finally, we had a very special presentation by Ross Brown on the intersection of business process modeling as realized in Second Life with the work we traditionally conduct in I/O Psychology. It was all wrapped up with a fantastic discussion moderation by our discussant, Jeff Stanton. All in all, quite a success with some very interesting questions.
After lunch, I headed to another session on social media in the workplace. This was a little data-light (which I personally find frustrating) until the third presentation, which was a very intriguing discussion of the use of a corporate social media platform in an attempt to better support and retain aboriginal Canadian employees (roughly equivalent to affirmative action policies in the United States). The platform was initially quite popular, followed by a drop in popularity, followed by a later resurgence after system redesign. The drop in popularity was likely due to a lack of obvious value-added to employees; although they were very enthusiastic about the idea of the corporate social network, they would often forget it was even there. There were a lot of parallels to my own work trying to promote underrepresented groups in STEM fields using the support systems provided by social media.
Finally, I attended a panel discussion on the virtual workplace. While very interesting, there was not much data to speak of – it was almost as if a room full of virtual workers got together in a room to complain about how frustrating virtual work can be.
So that’s it. Tomorrow has more posters and fewer sessions on the schedule, so the live stream will probably be a little less dense.
Post-Conference Edit: Turns out that Christopher Rosett is doing a retrospective on SIOP over at the SIOP Exchange. Here’s the link to Day 1. Take a look!
SIOP 2011 Coverage: Schedule Planning | Junior Faculty Consortium
Day 1 Live Blog | Day 1 Summary | Day 2/3 Live Blog | Day 2/3 Summary
This is a permanent record of tweets by rnlanders on Day 1 (Thursday) of SIOP. Summary later tonight.
#SIOP11 Day 1 begins!
10:29AM – I always intend to go to the opening plenary… But 8:30 is just so early!
At invited talk by @dcctips on the social media revolution at #SIOP11
I am revolutioning #siop11 #siop11rev
Talking about #wikinomics as a model of mass collaboration and networking
10:47AM – Interesting selection of case studies showcasing ambiguity surrounding social media policy
Got a mention in the social media revolution #SIOP11 #siop11rev
11:04AM – BlogNog platform sounds promising for gathering data
Tech savvy orgs started down the #socialmedia path, but its reach is now much longer #SIOP11 #siop11rev
Heading to get ready for our #siop11 #secondlife and MUVEs symposium
Virtual world / #secondlife session went great! Now to grab lunch? #siop11
Post lunch panel on social media in the workplace #SIOP11
@BreannePH terrible misinformation – direct them toward my January JAP
starting with the standard “everyone is on social media!” preaching to the choir? #siop11
ohhh io psychologists.. how i have missed you and your scientific rigor and structured methodologies…#SIOP #iopsychology
3:54PM – Still hypothetical benefits… “everyone says” doesn’t convince me… Need research!
Still waiting for some #psychology in these #socialmedia presentations… Lots of market research #SIOP11
4:06PM – Can’t help but wonder about results from a presentation on social media from a social media company #siop11 conflict of interests?
I am being buried under a flood of self report data
4:31PM – Using #socialmedia to improve inclusion, retention, sense of community for aboriginal (minority) Canadians… Much better #SIOP11
@BreannePH there are several with a financial interest saying no one cheats in UIT, ever, so stop studying it- a frustrating #siop sometimes
Fascinating case study by RBC, curious about all of their data #SIOP11
5:13PM – A little late to Preparing for the Virtual Workplace, but I made it
@ErikaWendt I think we are in the same room – I am in back right toward the door, in all black
“virtual employees need to toot their own horns more” – I remind my online students that I really am working on the class #SIOP11
Day 1 #SIOP11 complete! Now for nightlife