Automatic mapping and modeling of human networks

Pentland, Alex (Sandy)

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2007, vol. 378, issue 1, 59-67

Abstract: Mobile telephones, company ID badges, and similar common devices form a sensor network which can be used to map human activity, and especially human interactions. The most informative sensor data seem to be measurements of person-to-person proximity, and statistics of vocalization and body movement measurements. Using this data to model individual behavior as a stochastic process allows prediction of future activity, with the greatest predictive power obtained by modeling the interactions between individual processes. Experiments show that between 40% and 95% of the variance in human behavior may be explained by such models.

Keywords: Social network; Network analysis; Network modeling; Network dynamics; Modeling human behavior; Eigenanalysis; Influence analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2006.11.046

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