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Previous studies have shown that human movement is predictable to a certain extent at different geographic scales. Existing prediction techniques exploit only the past history of the person taken into consideration as input of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-07-17 Manlio De Domenico , Antonio Lima , Mirco Musolesi

Rapid advances in modern communication technology are enabling the accumulation of large-scale, high-resolution observational data of spatiotemporal movements of humans. Classification and prediction of human mobility based on the analysis…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-03-16 Juyong Park , Deok-Sun Lee , Marta C. Gonzalez

In recent years, we have seen scientists attempt to model and explain human dynamics and, in particular, human movement. Many aspects of our complex life are affected by human movements such as disease spread and epidemics modeling, city…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-11-05 Hugo Barbosa , Fernando Buarque de Lima Neto , Alexandre Evsukoff , Ronaldo Menezes

As a significant factor in urban planning, traffic forecasting and prediction of epidemics, modeling patterns of human mobility draws intensive attention from researchers for decades. Power-law distribution and its variations are observed…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-10-28 Xiao Liang , Xudong Zheng , Weifeng Lv , Tongyu Zhu , Ke Xu

Circadian rhythms are known to be important drivers of human activity and the recent availability of electronic records of human behaviour has provided fine-grained data of temporal patterns of activity on a large scale. Further,…

Owing to the big data the extension of physical laws on nonmaterial has seen numerous successes, and human mobility is one of the scientific frontier topics. Recent GPS technology has made it possible to trace detailed trajectories of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-03-21 Yohei Shida , Jun'ichi Ozaki , Hideki Takayasu , Misako Takayasu

Understanding human mobility is critical for decision support in areas from urban planning to infectious diseases control. Prior work has focused on tracking daily logs of outdoor mobility without considering relevant context, which contain…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-09-26 Kewei Zhang , Minkyoung Kim , Raja Jurdak , Dean Paini

Pervasive infrastructures, such as cell phone networks, enable to capture large amounts of human behavioral data but also provide information about the structure of cities and their dynamical properties. In this article, we focus on these…

In recent years, human mobility research has discovered universal patterns capable of describing how people move. These regularities have been shown to partly depend on individual and environmental characteristics (e.g., gender,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-12-18 Simone Centellegher , Marco De Nadai , Marco Tonin , Bruno Lepri , Lorenzo Lucchini

The increasing availability of large-scale data on human behavior has catalyzed simultaneous advances in network theory, capturing the scaling properties of the interactions between a large number of individuals, and human dynamics,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-04-10 Chaoming Song , Dashun Wang , Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

In the last decade, the effects of interruptions through mobile notifications have been extensively researched in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. Breakpoints in tasks and activities, cognitive load, and personality traits have all…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Christoph Anderson , Judith Simone Heinisch , Sandra Ohly , Klaus David , Veljko Pejovic

We study spatiotemporal correlations and temporal diversities of handset-based service usages by analyzing a dataset that includes detailed information about locations and service usages of 124 users over 16 months. By constructing the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-11-07 Hang-Hyun Jo , Márton Karsai , Juuso Karikoski , Kimmo Kaski

Human populations exhibit complex behaviors---characterized by long-range correlations and surges in activity---across a range of social, political, and technological contexts. Yet it remains unclear where these collective behaviors come…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-05-07 Christopher W. Lynn , Lia Papadopoulos , Daniel D. Lee , Danielle S. Bassett

Random walks and related spatial stochastic models have been used in a range of application areas including animal and plant ecology, infectious disease epidemiology, developmental biology, wound healing, and oncology. Classical random walk…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-22 Michael J. Plank , Matthew J. Simpson , Ruth E. Baker

We apply a simple clustering algorithm to a large dataset of cellular telecommunication records, reducing the complexity of mobile phone users' full trajectories and allowing for simple statistics to characterize their properties. For the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-11-05 James P. Bagrow , Tal Koren

Human settlements on Earth are scattered in a multitude of shapes, sizes and spatial arrangements. These patterns are often not random but a result of complex geographical, cultural, economic and historical processes that have profound…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-06-03 Emanuele Strano , Filippo Simini , Marco De Nadai , Thomas Esch , Mattia Marconcini

Uncovering the mechanism behind the scaling law in human trajectories is of fundamental significance in understanding many spatio-temporal phenomena. In combination of the exploration and the preferential returns, we propose a simple…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-05-24 Xiao-Pu Han , Xiang-Wen Wang , Xiao-Yong Yan , Bing-Hong Wang

Mobile applications and on-body devices are becoming increasingly ubiquitous tools for physical activity tracking. We propose utilizing a self-tracker's habits to support continuous prediction of whether they will reach their daily step…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Adam Wang , Steve Chang , John Wilson

Commuting is a key mechanism that governs the dynamics of cities. Despite its importance, very little is known of the properties and mechanisms underlying this crucial urban process. Here, we capitalize on $\sim$ 50 million individuals'…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-04-28 Lei Dong , Paolo Santi , Yu Liu , Siqi Zheng , Carlo Ratti

Study on human mobility is gaining increasing attention from the research community with its multiple applications to use in mobile networks, particularly for the purpose of message delivery in the Delay Tolerant Networks. To better…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Sungwook Moon , Ahmed Helmy