5-7 August, 2024
With pre-conference workshops on August 4th
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
Patient-Centered Measurement
Professor Leah McClimans from the University of South Carolina
Leah will discuss the dual nature of contemporary medicine, contrasting evidence-based medicine with patient-centered care. She will explore how patient-centered measurement, including patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) and quality of life measures, can integrate patient perspectives into the evaluation of medical treatments and healthcare quality. Leah will address the challenge of how measurement, which relies on standardization, can represent patient perspectives that are often varied and changeable.
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.
Conference Program
You can download a draft of the program here.
Workshops (August 4th)
- 9:00-12:00 — Measurement Across the Sciences Workshop [In person] — Luca Mari & Mark Wilson
- 9:00-11:00 — The Berkeley Assessment System Software (BASS) [In person] — David Torres Irribarra
- 9:00-1:00 — Open Strategy Workshop: Developing AI-powered Futures for Learning & Work [In person] — Luciano Oviedo & Tiburon Batriedo
- 1:30-4:30 — Learning Machines and Measurement-Related Issues Workshop [In person] — Alessandro Giordani, Luca Mari & Mark Wilson
- 2:30-4:30 — ACER ConQuest Software [In person] — Perman Gochyyev
Accommodation Information
| Hotel (3 nights: August 4 to August 7) | Distance to BWW (in miles) | Rate (per night) $USD | Expedia $USD | Booking.com $USD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Quinta Inn by Wyndham Berkeley | 1.5 | 109 | 327 | |
| Howard Johnson By Wyndham Berkeley | 0.7 | 126 | 378 | |
| Downtown Berkeley Inn | 0.4 | 157 | 471 | |
| Nash Hotel | 0.1 | 168 | 505 | |
| Large 1 Bedroom Apartment, Home Theater, Fireplace | 1.2 | 183 | 548 | |
| Aiden by Best Western Berkeley | 0.8 | 191 | 573 | 573 |
| Holiday Inn Express Berkeley | 1.2 | 200 | 600 | |
| SenS Hotel & Vanne Bistro Berkeley | 0.4 | 203 | 609 | |
| Hotel Shattuck Plaza | 0.3 | 215 | 671 | 644 |
| Sather Berkeley – SureStay Collection by Best Western | 0.4 | 220 | 661 | |
| Private room in the heart of Elmwood Berkeley | 1.1 | 242 | 727 | |
| Graduate Berkeley | 1.0 | 260 | 758 | 779 |
| Berkeley City Club | 0.7 | 277 | 831 | 832 |
| Residence Inn | 0.3 | 291 | 872 | 872 |
| Maple Family Suite | 1.5 | 291 | 872 | |
| North Berkeley Home (4-bedroom house) | 1.2 | 440 | 1320 | |
| The Claremont Club & Spa, A Fairmont Hotel | 1.8 | 537 | 1612 |
Thank you to our sponsors!
We look forward to seeing you in Berkeley in August!
Important dates
Submission portal opens: March 1, 2024Deadline for submission (updated): April 15, 2024Notification of acceptance- UPDATED – Early-bird Registration opens: May 13 – June 25 2024
- UPDATED – Regular Registration: June 26, 2024
Contact form
Please feel free to share this announcement with colleagues. Please also feel free to reach out with questions or comments using this contact form. We look forward to seeing you in Berkeley in August!
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:
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- Measurement and Simulation
- Connections between measuring and simulating
- Can simulation substitute for measurement?
- Measurement and Data Science
- Measurement and data quality
- Measurement and data analysis
- Measurement and AI
- 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)