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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 project 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 project also contributes to the development of new technologies for collecting relevant data. In particular, the projects 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

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.

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