2024 Inaugural Conference

May 2nd Update – New dates: 4-7 August, 2024

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.

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! 

Important dates

  • Submission portal opens: March 1, 2024
  • Deadline for submission (updated): April 15, 2024
  • Notification of acceptance: May 1, 2024
  • Early-bird Registration opens: May 1, 2024
  • Regular Registration opens: June 1, 2024

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  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

Submission guidelines [Submission are not 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.

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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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