English
Related papers

Related papers: Human Mobility in the Metaverse

200 papers

Among the realistic ingredients to be considered in the computational modeling of infectious diseases, human mobility represents a crucial challenge both on the theoretical side and in view of the limited availability of empirical data. In…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-02-04 Duygu Balcan , Vittoria Colizza , Bruno Goncalves , Hao Hu , Jose J. Ramasco , Alessandro Vespignani

Nighttime lights satellite imagery has been used for decades as a uniform, global source of data for studying a wide range of socioeconomic factors. Recently, another more terrestrial source is producing data with similarly uniform global…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Brian Dickinson , Gourab Ghoshal , Xerxes Dotiwalla , Adam Sadilek , Henry Kautz

Human mobility regularity is crucial for understanding urban dynamics and informing decision-making processes. This study first quantifies the periodicity in complex human mobility data as a sparse identification of dominant positive…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Xinyu Chen , Qi Wang , Yunhan Zheng , Nina Cao , HanQin Cai , Jinhua Zhao

Understanding the mobility of humans and their devices is a fundamental problem in mobile computing. While there has been much work on empirical analysis of human mobility using mobile device data, prior work has largely assumed devices to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Amee Trivedi , Jeremy Gummeson , Prashant Shenoy

Metaverse applications that incorporate Mobile Augmented Reality (MAR) provide mixed and immersive experiences by amalgamating the virtual with the physical world. Notably, due to their multi-modality such applications are demanding in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Zhaohui Huang , Vasilis Friderikos

We study the effects of mobility on the evolution of cooperation among mobile players, which imitate collective motion of biological flocks and interact with neighbors within a prescribed radius $R$. Adopting the prisoner's dilemma game and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-02-22 Zhuo Chen , Jian-Xi Gao , Yun-Ze Cai , Xiao-Ming Xu

Economic activities favor mutual geographical proximity and concentrate spatially to form cities. In a world of diminishing transport costs, however, the advantage of physical proximity is fading, and the role of cities in the economy may…

General Economics · Economics 2021-01-11 Tomoya Mori , Minoru Osawa

Recently, with the availability of various traffic datasets, human mobility has been studied in different contexts. Researchers attempt to understand the collective behaviors of human movement with respect to the spatio-temporal…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-06-06 Biao Leng , Yali Cui , Jianyuan Wang , Zhang Xiong , Shlomo Havlin , Daqing Li

Flocking is a fascinating phenomenon observed across a wide range of living organisms. We investigate, based on a simple self-propelled particle model, how the emergence of ordered motion in a collectively moving group is influenced by the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-06-04 Vijay Kumar , Rumi De

Cognition has been found to constrain several aspects of human behaviour, such as the number of friends and the number of favourite places a person keeps stable over time. This limitation has been empirically defined in the physical and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Marco De Nadai , Angelo Cardoso , Antonio Lima , Bruno Lepri , Nuria Oliver

In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of human-mobility modeling based on 1680 articles published between 1999 and 2019, which can serve as a roadmap for research and practice in this area. Mobility modeling research has…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Vaibhav Kulkarni , Benoit Garbinato

Analyses of urban scaling laws assume that observations in different cities are independent of the existence of nearby cities. Here we introduce generative models and data-analysis methods that overcome this limitation by modelling…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-01-21 Eduardo G. Altmann

Predicting human mobility flows at different spatial scales is challenged by the heterogeneity of individual trajectories and the multi-scale nature of transportation networks. As vast amounts of digital traces of human behaviour become…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-02-08 M. G. Beiró , A. Panisson , M. Tizzoni , C. Cattuto

Analyzing and modeling the mobility process with tour behavior is fundamental to understanding a wide range of complex systems, including animal foraging, human mobility and freight transportation. However, despite their importance, the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-09 Xu-Jie Lin , Yitao Yang , Wei-Peng Nie , Xiao-Yong Yan

Compared to the well-studied topic of human mobility in real geographic space, very few studies focus on human mobility in virtual space, such as interests, knowledge, ideas, and so forth. However, it relates to the issues of management of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Fanqi Zeng , Li Gong , Jing Liu , Jiang Zhang , Qinghua Chen , Ruyue Xin

We investigate at the subscale of the neighborhoods of a highly populated city the incidence of property crimes in terms of both the resident and the floating population. Our results show that a relevant allometric relation could only be…

Geographic borders are not only essential for the effective functioning of government, the distribution of administrative responsibilities and the allocation of public resources, they also influence the interregional flow of information,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-03-30 C. Thiemann , F. Theis , D. Grady , R. Brune , D. Brockmann

Navigating our physical environment requires changing directions and turning. Despite its ecological importance, we do not have a unified theoretical account of non-straight-line human movement. Here, we present a unified optimality…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-11-03 Geoffrey L. Brown , Nidhi Seethapathi , Manoj Srinivasan

The movement changes the underlying spatial representation of the participated mobile objects or nodes. In real world scenario, such mobile nodes can be part of any biological network, transportation network, social network, human…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Md. Arquam , Utkarsh Tiwari , Suchi Kumari