“We have captured communication, proximity, location, and activity information from 100 subjects at MIT over the course of the 2004-2005 academic year. This data represents over 350,000 hours (~40 years) of continuous data on human behavior. Such rich data on complex social systems have implications for a variety of fields. The research questions we are addressing include: How do social networks evolve over time? How entropic (predictable) are most people’s lives? How does information flow? Can the topology of a social network be inferred from only proximity data? How can we change a group’s interactions to promote better functioning?”
(Are you at CHI in Montreal? Want to meet up? Send me an email)
Link: MIT Media Lab: Reality Mining (media.mit.edu)
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