Dataset collected at ETH Zürich by Timon Elmer and colleagues in order to test the accuracy of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) badges for measuring social interactions. Social interactions of 11 individuals (from the university staff) were recorded with RFID badges in an informal setting. They were then compared to the interactions observed by two confederates who watched the video recording of the event. The RFID data went through the data processing procedure detailed in the original article. See Elmer et al, 2019 for more details, and the OSF platform for all details on the dataset.
data(RFID_Validity_Study)
rfid
video
known.before
participants3 dataframes:
participants (11 rows, 7 columns):
attributes of the experiment's participants
rfid (1011 rows, 4 columns): dyadic interactions detected
by the RFID badges (after data processing)
video (219 rows, 4 columns): dyadic interactions detected
by the video rating
and one network:
known.before (11 rows, 11 columns): network of previous acquaintances
See below for variables and formats.
| Object | Description | Format |
| participants$actor | Identifier of the actor | integer |
| participants$label | (Anonymized) name | Factor |
| participants$present | Presence of the actor (all actors are present) | logical |
| participants$age | Actor's age | integer |
| participants$gender | Actor's gender (0: male, 1: female) | integer |
| participants$group | Actor's group affiliation (groups have distinct ids) | integer |
| participants$level | Actor's seniority (1: MSc student, 2: PhD student, 3: PostDoc, 4: Prof) | integer |
| rfid$NodeA | Identifier for the first actor | chr |
| rfid$NodeB | Identifier for the second actor | chr |
| rfid$Start | Time of the beginning of the dyadic interaction | integer |
| rfid$End | Time of the end of the dyadic interaction | integer |
| video$NodeA | Identifier for the first actor | chr |
| video$NodeB | Identifier for the second actor | chr |
| video$Start | Time of the beginning of the dyadic interaction | integer |
| video$End | Time of the end of the dyadic interaction | integer |
An object of class data.frame with 1011 rows and 4 columns.
An object of class data.frame with 219 rows and 4 columns.
An object of class matrix (inherits from array) with 11 rows and 11 columns.
An object of class data.frame with 11 rows and 7 columns.
Elmer, T., Chaitanya, K., Purwar, P., & Stadtfeld, C. (2019). The validity of RFID badges measuring face-to-face interactions. Behavior research methods, 1-19. doi:10.3758/s13428-018-1180-y