Wouter Van den Broeck will be attending the Council event on the Internet of Things in Brussels, on Friday 4th. If you want to know more about SocioPatterns, go look for Wouter! You will also find him at the workshop on Reassembling Health: exploring the role of The Internet of Things.
Welcome to the website of the SocioPatterns project. This projects aims to shed light on patterns in social dynamics and coordinated human activity. We do so by developing and deploying an experimental social interaction sensing platform. This platform consists of portable sensing device and software tools for aggregating, analyzing and visualizing the resulting data.
First deployment in a healthcare setting
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Since the beginning of the past week, we have been running a pilot experiment in a major Italian pediatric hospital, in a collaboration with the hospital and the ISS. The experiment involves patients, doctors, healthcare workers and visitors, simultaneously collecting contact information and clinical information. We aim at measuring epidemiologically relevant quantities in a real-world healthcare setting.
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- Announcing a new experiment in a primary school
- Published on September 30th, 2009
On October 1-2 a SocioPatterns experiment will run in a new setting: a primary school in Lyon, France. We will record the proximity patterns of about 240 students.
read more... - Live Social Semantics
- Published on September 15th, 2009
In moving from measuring social interactions to augmenting them, a critical task is the integration of heterogeneous data sources, such as real-world face-to-face contacts, on-line friendships and shared interests (both explicitly stated or implicitly inferred from metadata). This integration holds the key to exposing the social semantics of the measured interactions, and paves the door [...]
read more... - Live Social Semantics at HT09
- Published on June 27th, 2009
Following up on the success of the Live Social Semantics experiment at the European Semantic Web Conference 2009 in Greece, we will deploy a new experiment at Hypertext 2009 in Torino, from Monday 29th to July 1st. HT09 attendees will be able to experience an application that mashes up real-world social contacts and on-line friendships [...]
read more... - This weekend: SocioPatterns workshop in Dublin
- Published on June 12th, 2009
If you already know a thing or two about Adobe Flash/Flex, Processing/Python or SuperCollider/Max/MSP, and you want to seize this unique opportunity to apply your skills in a two-day ‘Hack-a-Thon’ workshop to visualize/sonorize the SocioPatterns data stream at the Science Gallery- this is the workshop for you! This event is a hands-on exploration of possible [...]
read more... - Triple deployment
- Published on June 4th, 2009
We’re proud to announce that today we had three simultaneous SocioPatterns experiments successfully up and running in three different countries. One experiment has been running for more than six weeks at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, the second has been running for the last couple of days at the European Semantic Web Conference conference [...]
read more... - Upcoming SocioPatterns experiments
- Published on May 24th, 2009
We have three new SocioPatterns experiments in the pipeline. The first will be deployed at the European Semantic Web Conference from May 31st to June 4th, in Heraklion, Greece. This deployment will focus on the integration of the real-time social interaction data with semantic data on the on-line social networks of the participants.
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The second will [...] - SocioPatterns at Infectious in the Science Gallery, Dublin
- Published on April 23rd, 2009
Last week we deployed a new SocioPatterns experiment at the “Infectious” exhibition in the Science Gallery at the Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. The following movie is a teaser for the exhibition.
Setup
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All visitors of the exhibition get to wear SocioPatterns/OpenBeacon tags during their visit. For this exhibition, the firmware has been enhanced to support a “virtual [...] - SocioPatterns at the 25C3 conference
- Published on December 29th, 2008
On December 26-30th we deployed a new SocioPatterns experiment at the 25th Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin (25C3). This is the first large-scale deployment of our platform for sensing social interactions. We added to the visualization interface several ways of focusing on particular subsets of the real-time and cumulative contact networks. In line with the [...]
read more... - Contact Patterns part 2
- Published on December 5th, 2008
The following movie visualizes the social interactions between the participants of a recent workshop at Villa Gualino. The visualized data is obtained through a distributed sensing platform. This platform uses active RFID technology to detect “contacts” during which participants are both near each other and are facing each other. If such configuration is sustained for [...]
read more... - Social interactions at a conference
- Published on November 7th, 2008
High-resolution localization of active RFID devices by means of triangulation is a non-trivial task. However, a more coarse-grained localization, by room for example, is easily feasible.
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There were three main ‘rooms’ at the “Facing the Challenge of Infectious Diseases” conference: the conference room, the bar and the cafeteria. The following figure shows how many participants were [...] - Contact duration
- Published on October 21st, 2008
We just completed a first experiment with our new contact-detection firmware for the OpenBeacon platform. The experiment was hosted at a conference on “Facing the Challenge of Infectious Diseases” and involved about 50 attendees over four days. The new firmware proved to be as much reliable in a real-world setting as it appeared to be [...]
read more... - New firmware for contact detection
- Published on September 4th, 2008
Detecting contacts between persons, in a reliable and accurate way, is a crucial requirement to achieve the scientific goals of SocioPatterns. In a variety of contexts, spatial proximity is a good proxy for social interaction. Spatial proximity of persons wearing an active RFID tag can be inferred by tracking the location of RFID tags, and [...]
read more... - Exposing contact patterns
- Published on June 13th, 2008
SocioPatterns.org aims to shed light on hidden patterns in social dynamics. A case in point is the study of contact patterns, which deals with such patterns in contacts among people. To date, little is known about these patterns. Although models can help in learning more, measuring real-world dynamics is indispensable for obtaining a complete picture. [...]
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