WELCOME

We increasingly use digital media and computational devices in our daily activities, and leave behind a sizable amount of digital traces while doing so. The proliferation of mobile devices, and the incorporation of various sensing technologies in these devices, will further add to this growing trail of data. The possibility to mine and analyze these data, and the scale at which this can be done on contemporary computer systems, affords a novel, data-driven approach in the investigation of various aspects of human behavior.

SocioPatterns is an interdisciplinary research collaboration that adopts this data-driven methodology with the aim of uncovering fundamental patterns in social dynamics and coordinated human activity.

To achieve its scientific goals, the SocioPatterns collaboration also contributes to the development of new technologies for collecting relevant data. In particular, the collaboration supports the development of the SocioPatterns sensing platform, which uses wireless wearable sensors to gather longitudinal data on human mobility and face-to-face proximity in real-world environments. The SocioPatterns team also works on developing tools and techniques to represent, analyze and visualize the collected data.

FEATURED: INFECTIOUS SOCIOPATTERNS POSTER

Composite image. Left: One of the sixty-nine daily diagrams of contact activity. Right: Thumbnail of the poster with the complete visualization and accompanying text.

Left: One of the sixty-nine daily diagrams of contact activity. Right: Thumbnail of the poster with the complete visualization and accompanying text.

We have created a visualization of sixty-nine days of face-to-face contact activity among more that 30,000 persons based on data collected during the INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY exhibition in the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland. This visualization is published in our gallery as a poster that can be freely downloaded.

COLLABORATION MEMBERS

SocioPatterns is a collaboration between researchers and developers from the following institutions and companies:

ISI Foundation – Turin, Italy
CNRS – Centre de Physique Théorique – Marseille, France
ENS Lyon – Laboratoire de Physique – Lyon, France
Bitmanufaktur – Berlin, Germany

NEWS

SocioPatterns at NetSci2013

Ciro Cattuto is presenting a review of our results in the workshop Temporal and Dynamic Networks: From Data to Models taking place on June 3-4, 2013 in Copenhagen, Denmark as a satellite of NetSci2013. Moreover, Laetitia Gauvin presented new results on “The activity-community structure of time-varying networks: A non-negative tensor factorization approach” in the workshop on Dynamic Information and Communication Networks 2013.

SocioPatterns chapter in the “Temporal Networks” book

A book chapter by Alain Barrat and Ciro Cattuto was published in the new book on Temporal Networks edited by Petter Holme and Jari Saramäki.

SocioPatterns at “Digital Epidemiology” workshop

Alain Barrat has presented the results of our recent paper “An infectious disease model on empirical networks of human contact: bridging the gap between dynamic network data and contact matrices” at the “Digital Epidemiology” workshop that took place at ISI Foundation, Turin, on May 30-31, 2013.