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Our understanding of gender differences in mobility is marked by a clear tension: surveys portray women's movements as more complex than men's, while digital traces suggest less diverse travel. Here, we resolve the contradiction by modeling…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-04-02 Sílvia de Sojo , Sune Lehmann , Laura Alessandretti

Mobile phone data has enabled the timely and fine-grained study human mobility. Call Detail Records, generated at call events, allow building descriptions of mobility at different resolutions and with different spatial, temporal and social…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-03-17 David Pastor-Escuredo , Enrique Frias-Martinez

As "Big Data" has become pervasive, an increasing amount of research has connected the dots between human behaviour in the offline and online worlds. Consequently, researchers have exploited these new findings to create models that better…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Marco De Nadai , Bruno Lepri , Nuria Oliver

The proliferation of smartphones has accelerated mobility studies by largely increasing the type and volume of mobility data available. One such source of mobility data is from GPS technology, which is becoming increasingly common and helps…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Zann Koh , Yuren Zhou , Billy Pik Lik Lau , Ran Liu , Keng Hua Chong , Chau Yuen

Realistic mobility models are fundamental to evaluate the performance of protocols in mobile ad hoc networks. Unfortunately, there are no mobility models that capture the non-homogeneous behaviors in both space and time commonly found in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-10-23 Wei-jen Hsu , Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos , Konstantinos Psounis , Ahmed Helmy

The emergence of new digital technologies has allowed the study of human behaviour at a scale and at level of granularity that were unthinkable just a decade ago. In particular, by analysing the digital traces left by people interacting in…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Mirco Musolesi

In this work we propose, implement, and evaluate GRM, a novel mobility model that accounts for the role of group meeting dynamics and regularity in human mobility. Specifically, we show that existing mobility models for humans do not…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Ivan O. Nunes , Clayson Celes , Michael D. Silva , Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo , Antonio A. F. Loureiro

Recent years have witnessed an explosion of extensive geolocated datasets related to human movement, enabling scientists to quantitatively study individual and collective mobility patterns, and to generate models that can capture and…

One vision of future wireless networks is that they will be deeply integrated and embedded in our lives and will involve the use of personalized mobile devices. User behavior in such networks is bound to affect the network performance. It…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-06-30 Wei-jen Hsu , Debojyoti Dutta , Ahmed Helmy

Human mobility clustering is an important problem for understanding human mobility behaviors (e.g., work and school commutes). Existing methods typically contain two steps: choosing or learning a mobility representation and applying a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Haoji Hu , Haowen Lin , Yao-Yi Chiang

With the increasing emphasis on how mobile technologies are experienced in everyday life, researchers are increasingly emphasizing the use of in-situ methods such as Experience Sampling and Day Reconstruction. In our line of research we…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2012-07-10 Rúben Gouveia , Evangelos Niforatos , Evangelos Karapanos

Research into, and design and construction of mobile systems and algorithms requires access to large-scale mobility data. Unfortunately, the wireless and mobile research community lacks such data. For instance, the largest available human…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-09-21 Pan Hui , Richard Mortier , Tristan Henderson , Jon Crowcroft

Design and simulation of future mobile networks will center around human interests and behavior. We propose a design paradigm for mobile networks driven by realistic models of users' on-line behavior, based on mining of billions of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-05-31 Saeed Moghaddam , Ahmed Helmy , Sanjay Ranka , Manas Somaiya

Human mobility patterns deeply affect the dynamics of many social systems. In this paper, we empirically analyze the real-world human movements based GPS records, and observe rich scaling properties in the temporal-spatial patterns as well…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-15 Xiang-Wen Wang , Xiao-Pu Han , Bing-Hong Wang

Mobile gaze tracking involves inferring a user's gaze point or direction on a mobile device's screen from facial images captured by the device's front camera. While this technology inspires an increasing number of gaze-interaction…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Yaxiong Lei , Yuheng Wang , Fergus Buchanan , Mingyue Zhao , Yusuke Sugano , Shijing He , Mohamed Khamis , Juan Ye

This paper proposes a novel approach for detecting groups of people that walk "together" (group mobility) as well as the people who walk "alone" (individual movements) using wireless signals. We exploit multiple wireless sniffers to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Gürkan Solmaz , Fang-Jing Wu

Previous studies demonstrated empirically that human mobility exhibits Levy flight behaviour. However, our knowledge of the mechanisms governing this Levy flight behaviour remains limited. Here we analyze over 72 000 people's moving…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-09-15 Bin Jiang , Junjun Yin , Sijian Zhao

With current technology, a number of entities have access to user mobility traces at different levels of spatio-temporal granularity. At the same time, users frequently reveal their location through different means, including geo-tagged…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Apostolos Pyrgelis , Nicolas Kourtellis , Ilias Leontiadis , Joan Serrà , Claudio Soriente

Understanding the behavior of software in execution is a key step in identifying and fixing performance issues. This is especially important in high performance computing contexts where even minor performance tweaks can translate into large…

Human behaviors exhibit ubiquitous correlations in many aspects, such as individual and collective levels, temporal and spatial dimensions, content, social and geographical layers. With rich Internet data of online behaviors becoming…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-09-12 Chao Fan , Yiding Liu , Junming Huang , Zhihai Rong , Tao Zhou