Institute for Data, Systems, and Society: Recent submissions

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    • Understanding collective regularity in human mobility as a familiar stranger phenomenon 

      Leng, Yan; Santistevan, Dominiquo; Pentland, Alex (Scientific Reports, 2021-09-30)
      Beyond the physical structures that contain daily routines, urban city dwellers repeatedly encounter strangers that similarly shape their environments. Familiar strangers are neither formal acquaintances nor completely ...

    • User Profiling Based on Nonlinguistic Audio Data 

      Shen, Jiaxing; Cao, Jiannong; Lederman, Oren; Tang, Shaojie; Pentland, Alex (ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 2021-09-07)
      User profiling refers to inferring people’s attributes of interest (AoIs) like gender and occupation, which enables various applications ranging from personalized services to collective analyses. Massive nonlinguistic audio ...

    • Social Influence Leads to the Formation of Diverse Local Trends 

      Epstein, Ziv; Groh, Matthew; Dubey, Abhimanyu; Pentland, Alex (Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2021-10-18)
      How does the visual design of digital platforms impact user behavior and the resulting environment? A body of work suggests that introducing social signals to content can increase both the inequality and unpredictability ...