Reality mining: Digging the impact of friendship and location on crowd behavior

Yuanfang Chen, Antonio M. Ortiz, Noel Crespi, Lei Shu, Lin Lv

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Abstract

Crowd behavior of human deserves to be studied since it is common that people are influenced and change their behavior when being in a group. In pervasive computing research, an amount of work has been directed towards discovering human movement patterns based on wireless networks, mainly focusing on movements of individuals. It is surprising that social interaction among individuals in a crowd is largely neglected. Mobile phones offer on-body tracking and they are already deployed on a large scale, allowing the characterization of user behav- ior through large amounts of wireless information collected by mobile phones. In this paper, we observe and analyze the impact of friendship and location attributes on crowd behavior, using location-based wire- less mobility information. This is a cornerstone for predicting crowd behavior, which can be used in a large number of applications such as crowdsourcing-based technology, traffic management, crowd safety, and infrastructure deployment.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMobile and Ubiquitous Systems
Subtitle of host publicationComputing, Networking, and Services - 10th International Conference, MOBIQUITOUS 2013, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsIvan Stojmenovic, Zixue Cheng, Song Guo
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages142-154
Number of pages13
ISBN (Electronic)9783319115689
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event10th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services, MOBIQUITOUS 2013 - Tokyo, Japan
Duration: 2 Dec 20134 Dec 2013

Publication series

NameLecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST
Volume131
ISSN (Print)1867-8211

Conference

Conference10th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services, MOBIQUITOUS 2013
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityTokyo
Period2/12/134/12/13

Keywords

  • Complex social networks
  • Crowd behavior
  • Mobile devices
  • Wearable computing

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