An overview of the SocioPatterns project and of its results will be presented at the APS March meeting in Boston, USA (Feb. 27 – Mar. 2, 2012): A. Barrat will give an invited talk titled “Mining networks of human contact with wearable sensors”.

The time-resolved dataset of human contacts gathered during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland is now available for download. It is the dynamic counterpart of the daily cumulated contact networks released previously.

Recent results from the SocioPatterns project will be presented at the Epidemics3 conference in Boston, USA (Nov. 29th – Dec. 2nd, 2011).

Ciro Cattuto will give a talk titled “Close encounters in a pediatric ward: Measuring face-to-face proximity and mixing patterns with wearable sensors”, and two posters will as well be presented.

A new SocioPatterns dataset is now available for download. We are releasing to the public a high-resolution time-resolved network of human contact, gathered at an academic conference. If you have questions about these data, please do not hesitate to contact us!

A new paper has just been published in PLoS ONE, on the properties of contact patterns between children in a primary school. Schools are epidemiologically important environments, and access to empirical contact patterns can empower modeling efforts as well as design strategies for containing the spread of infectious diseases. The paper reports on our first large-scale deployment in a school environment.