2024 Inaugural Conference

Update – New dates: 5-7 August, 2024

With pre-conference workshops on August 4th

Notification of acceptance are currently ongoing and all will be delivered by May 17, 2024

Registration is now open!

We are excited to announce that, thanks to the enthusiastic response to the call for proposals, the Inaugural Conference of the Society for the Study of Measurement will be held in person at the University of California, Berkeley on August 4–7, 2024. 

The Conference of the Society for the Study of Measurement is an interdisciplinary conference that explores the philosophy and history of measurement. It aims to consolidate and develop the study of these topics, following previous conferences that predate the foundation of the Society in Bielefeld (2013), Cambridge (2015), Paris (2018) and Milan (2022). It will bring together philosophers, historians, sociologists, psychometricians, and metrologists to address questions related to measurement across disciplines ranging from the natural sciences to the human sciences.

Each presentation session will have either (i) an organized symposium, or (ii) 3 thirty-minute individual presentations within each session (20 mins. for the talk,
plus a discussant and Q&A time).

In addition to the presentation sessions, the conference will include:

  • 2 Invited Talks
  • the SSM Business Meeting
  • extensive times for informal interactions over lunch and morning and afternoon breaks
  • a “happy hour” on the Monday (Aug 5), 
  • a conference dinner on the Tuesday (Aug 6), and, 
  • on the Thursday following the conference (Aug 8), a morning campus tour.

Registration

You can now register for the conference at the registration website. Early bird conference registration fees (until June 25) is $150 for regular attendees and $120 for students.

Invited Speakers

Scaling and its Relationship with Measurement: Past, Present and Future.

Professor Derek Briggs from the University of Colorado at Boulder

Derek will talk about the history of the psychometric activity of scaling and its relationship to measurement and offer some ideas for how the two can be more tightly coupled in the future.

Title: TBA

Professor Leah McClimans from the University of South Carolina

Conference Program

Day 1 – August 5th

  • 08:30-08:45 – Opening Session
  • 08:45-09:30 – Invited Talk 1
  • 09:35-11:05 – Session 1A & 1B
  • 11:05-11:35 – Morning Break
  • 11:35-01:05 – Sessions 2A & 2B
  • 01:05-02:35 – Lunch
  • 02:35-04:05 – Session 3 
  • 04:05-04:35 – Afternoon Break
  • 04:35-06:05 – Sessions 4A & 4B 

Day 2 – August 6th

  • 08:30-10:00 – Sessions 5A & 5B
  • 10:00-10:30 – Morning Break
  • 10:30-12:00 – Sessions 6A & 6B
  • 12:00-01:30 – Lunch
  • 01:30-02:30 – SSM Business Meeting
  • 02:30-04:00 – Session 7
  • 04:00-04:30 – Afternoon Break
  • 04:30-06:00 – Sessions 8A & 8B

Day 3 – August 7th

  • 08:30-08:45 – Opening Session
  • 08:45-09:30 – Invited Talk 2
  • 09:35-11:05 – Session 9A & 9B
  • 11:05-11:35 – Morning Break
  • 11:35-01:05 – Sessions 10A & 10B
  • 01:05-02:35 – Lunch
  • 02:35-04:05 – Session 11
  • 04:05-04:35 – Afternoon Break
  • 04:35-06:05 – Sessions 12A &12B
  • 06:05-06:20 – Closing Session

We look forward to seeing you in Berkeley in August! 

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Submission guidelines [Submission are now closed]

The submissions formats were:

  • (a) Individual presentations (20 min. with 10 min. Q&A) 
  • (b) Symposia (2-4 papers)
  • (c) Posters
  • (d) 2-4 hour workshops (these would occur on the day before, on Aug. 4)

Proposals for individual required contributions (~500 words) or symposia/workshops (~1,200 words), specifying the chosen format (a)-(d), and following the instructions of the submissions website.

Topics included in the call for proposals:

  1.  Models in Measurement
  • The role of models in measurement
  • The role of models in justifying measurement results
  • Models, intersubjectivity, objectivity, validation
  • Models of measurement from a historical point of view
  1. Models of Measurement
  • The general structure of the measurement process
  • The structure of measurement in social and human sciences
  • Transduction and calibration in measurement
  • History of the conception of the structure of measurement
  1. History, Philosophy and Sociology of Measurement
  • Exploration across sciences with diverse philosophical perspectives.
  • Revival in early 2000s overcomes science study tensions.
  • New quantification and measurement approaches.
  • Recognition: quantification extends beyond meaning to reliability, inference.
  1. Measurement and Simulation 
  • Connections between measuring and simulating
  • Can simulation substitute for measurement?
  1.  Measurement and Data Science
  • Measurement and data quality
  • Measurement and data analysis
  • Measurement and AI
  1.  Measurement Applications
  • Health Sciences
  • Social Sciences
  • Life & Physical Sciences
  • Operations Research and Industrial Science
  • Environmental Sciences
  • Business and Economics
  • Agricultural Sciences
  • Computer Science and Information Technology
  • Urban Planning and Geography

2024 Scientific Committee Members

We would like to thank the members of the Scientific Committee, who have supported the conference by reviewing multiple proposals and providing helpful advice to the proposers about their presentations:

  • Diane Allen
  • John Baker
  • Matt Barney
  • Emil Bashkansky
  • Alessandra Basso
  • Kirk Becker
  • Svetlana Beltyukova
  • Eric Benoit
  • Derek Briggs
  • Alex Clain
  • Celeste Combrinck
  • Nadine de Courtenay
  • Amy Dray
  • Brent Duckor
  • Numan Durakbasa
  • Sascha Eichstaedt
  • William Fisher
  • Rebecca Freund
  • Alessandro Giordani
  • Fabien Gregis
  • Curt Hagquist
  • Fan Huang
  • Hrishi Joshi
  • Steve Kramer
  • William Lang
  • Rich Lehrer
  • Luca Mari
  • Bob Massof
  • Andy Maul
  • Jeanette Melin
  • Joseph Merlino
  • Linda Morell
  • Mark Moulton
  • Emily Oon
  • Rich Patz
  • Mike Peabody
  • Leslie Pendrill
  • Daniel Perlstein
  • Frank Rijmen
  • Giovanni Rossi
  • Thomas Salzberger
  • Greg Sampson
  • Veronica Santelices
  • Kseniia Sapozhnikova
  • Klaas Sijtsma
  • Anders Skrondal
  • Klaus Dieter Sommer
  • Nancy Songer
  • Joao Sousa
  • Donna Surges Tatum
  • Eran Tal
  • Pina Tarricone
  • Roald Taymanov
  • Jen Weaver
  • Judy Wilkerson
  • Mark Wilson
  • Stefanie Wind
  • Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia

2024 Measurement at the Crossroads Organizing Committee

  • Mark Wilson (Host & Scientific Committee co-Chair)
  • William Fisher (Host, Sponsorship sub-Committee chair & Scientific Committee co-Chair)
  • Qing Cai (Venue sub-Committee chair) 
  • Perman Gochyyev (IT sub-Committee Co-chair) 
  • David Torres Irribarra (IT sub-Committee Co-chair) 
  • Himilcon Inciarte (Advertising sub-Committee chair) 
  • Yunting Liu (Day-of-Event sub-Committee chair) 
  • Smriti Mehta (Conference Agenda sub-Committee chair)  
  • Josh Sussman (Organizing Committee Secretary) 
  • Mingfeng Xue (Finances sub-Committee Chair)
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