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physics.soc-ph2026

Correcting temporal bias in mobility data using time-use surveys

Sarah A. Sanchez, Hamish Gibbs, Takahiro Yabe +2

GPS mobility data is a valuable source of behavioral measurement which is subject to systematic biases including the over- or under-representation of demographic groups, and variat…

physics.soc-ph2024

One rule does not fit all: deviations from universality in human mobility modeling

Ludovico Napoli, Márton Karsai, Esteban Moro

The accurate modeling of individual movement in cities has significant implications for policy decisions across various sectors. Existing research emphasizes the universality of hu…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 5 cited

Temporal clustering of social interactions trades-off disease spreading and knowledge diffusion

Giulia Cencetti, Lorenzo Lucchini, Gabriele Santin +4

Non-pharmaceutical measures such as preventive quarantines, remote working, school and workplace closures, lockdowns, etc. have shown effectivenness from an epidemic control perspe…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 13 cited

Home-to-school pedestrian mobility GPS data from a citizen science experiment in the Barcelona area

Ferran Larroya, Ofelia Díaz, Oleguer Segarra +4

The analysis of pedestrian GPS datasets is fundamental to further advance on the study and the design of walkable cities. The highest resolution GPS data can characterize micro-mob…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 2 cited

Identifying latent activity behaviors and lifestyles using mobility data to describe urban dynamics

Yanni Yang, Alex Pentland, Esteban Moro

Urbanization and its problems require an in-depth and comprehensive understanding of urban dynamics, especially the complex and diversified lifestyles in modern cities. Digitally a…

physics.soc-ph2022

Diversity beyond density: experienced social mixing of urban streets

Zhuangyuan Fan, Tianyu Su, Maoran Sun +4

Urban density, in the form of residents' and visitors' concentration, is long considered to foster diverse exchanges of interpersonal knowledge and skills, which are intrinsic to s…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 73 cited

Behavioral changes during the pandemic worsened income diversity of urban encounters

Takahiro Yabe, Bernardo Garcia Bulle Bueno, Xiaowen Dong +2

Diversity of physical encounters and social interactions in urban environments are known to spur economic productivity and innovation in cities, while also to foster social capital…

physics.soc-ph2015★ 87 cited

From seconds to months: multi-scale dynamics of mobile telephone calls

Jari Saramaki, Esteban Moro

Big Data on electronic records of social interactions allow approaching human behaviour and sociality from a quantitative point of view with unforeseen statistical power. Mobile te…

physics.soc-ph2015★ 149 cited

Daily rhythms in mobile telephone communication

Talayeh Aledavood, Eduardo López, Sam G. B. Roberts +4

Circadian rhythms are known to be important drivers of human activity and the recent availability of electronic records of human behaviour has provided fine-grained data of tempora…

physics.soc-ph2014★ 167 cited

Social media fingerprints of unemployment

Alejandro Llorente, Manuel Garcia-Herranz, Manuel Cebrian +1

Recent wide-spread adoption of electronic and pervasive technologies has enabled the study of human behavior at an unprecedented level, uncovering universal patterns underlying hum…

physics.soc-ph2013★ 16 cited

Time allocation in social networks: correlation between social structure and human communication dynamics

Giovanna Miritello, Rubén Lara, Esteban Moro

Recent research has shown the deep impact of the dynamics of human interactions (or temporal social networks) on the spreading of information, opinion formation, etc. In general, t…

physics.soc-ph2013★ 104 cited

The predictability of consumer visitation patterns

Coco Krumme, Alejandro Llorente, Manuel Cebrián +3

We consider hundreds of thousands of individual economic transactions to ask: how predictable are consumers in their merchant visitation patterns? Our results suggest that, in the…

physics.soc-ph2011★ 117 cited

Branching Dynamics of Viral Information Spreading

José Luis Iribarren, Esteban Moro

Despite its importance for rumors or innovations propagation, peer-to-peer collaboration, social networking or Marketing, the dynamics of information spreading is not well understo…

physics.soc-ph2011★ 265 cited

Social features of online networks: the strength of intermediary ties in online social media

Przemyslaw A. Grabowicz, Jose J. Ramasco, Esteban Moro +2

An increasing fraction of today social interactions occur using online social media as communication channels. Recent worldwide events, such as social movements in Spain or revolts…

physics.soc-ph2010★ 313 cited

The dynamical strength of social ties in information spreading

Giovanna Miritello, Esteban Moro, Rubén Lara

We investigate the temporal patterns of human communication and its influence on the spreading of information in social networks. The analysis of mobile phone calls of 20 million p…

physics.soc-ph2007★ 416 cited

Information diffusion epidemics in social networks

Jose Luis Iribarren, Esteban Moro

The dynamics of information dissemination in social networks is of paramount importance in processes such as rumors or fads propagation, spread of product innovations or "word-of-m…