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Sensing Informal Networks in Organizations
(American Behavioral Scientist, 2014-11-21)We present an examination of informal network structure within the sales division of a global manufacturing organization. Sociometric Badges were used to collect data on face-to-face interactions over a total of 8 weeks, ... -
Unique in the shopping mall: On the reidentifiability of credit card metadata
(Science, 2015-01-30)Large-scale data sets of human behavior have the potential to fundamentally transform the way we fight diseases, design cities, or perform research. Metadata, however, contain sensitive information. Understanding the privacy ... -
Assessing data intrusion threats—Response
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Gender Differences in Real-Home Sleep of Young and Older Couples
(Southwest Journal of Pulmonary and Critical Care, 2015-05-19)Objectives: To understand gender differences in sleep quality, architecture and duration of young healthy couples in comparison to older couples in their natural sleep environment. Design: Sleep was monitored in a ... -
Partnership Ties Shape Friendship Networks: A Dynamic Social Network Study
(Social Forces, 2015-06-26)Partnership ties shape friendship networks through different social forces. First, partnership ties drive clustering in friendship networks: individuals who are in a partnership tend to have common friends and befriend ... -
Simple market models fail the test
(Nature, 2015-09-22) -
Temporal fidelity in dynamic social networks
(The European Physical Journal B, 2015-10-07)It has recently become possible to record detailed social interactions in large social systems with high resolution. As we study these datasets, human social interactions display patterns that emerge at multiple time scales, ... -
Response to Comment on “Unique in the shopping mall: On the reidentifiability of credit card metadata”
(Science, 2016-03-18)Sánchez et al.’s textbook k-anonymization example does not prove, or even suggest, that location and other big-data data sets can be anonymized and of general use. The synthetic data set that they “successfully anonymize” ... -
Are You Your Friends’ Friend? Poor Perception of Friendship Ties Limits the Ability to Promote Behavioral Change
(PLOS ONE, 2016-03-22)Persuasion is at the core of norm creation, emergence of collective action, and solutions to ‘tragedy of the commons’ problems. In this paper, we show that the directionality of friendship ties affect the extent to which ... -
Driver behavior profiling: An investigation with different smartphone sensors and machine learning
(PLOS ONE, 2017-04-10)Driver behavior impacts traffic safety, fuel/energy consumption and gas emissions. Driver behavior profiling tries to understand and positively impact driver behavior. Usually driver behavior profiling tasks involve automated ... -
Social Bridges in Urban Purchase Behavior
(ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 2017-12)The understanding and modeling of human purchase behavior in city environment can have important implications in the study of urban economy and in the design and organization of cities. In this article, we study human ... -
Optimizing targeted vaccination across cyber–physical networks: an empirically based mathematical simulation stud
(Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2018-01-03)Targeted vaccination, whether to minimize the forward transmission of infectious diseases or their clinical impact, is one of the ‘holy grails’ of modern infectious disease outbreak response, yet it is difficult to achieve ... -
Optimizing targeted vaccination across cyber–physical networks: an empirically based mathematical simulation study
(Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2018-01-03)Targeted vaccination, whether to minimize the forward transmission of infectious diseases or their clinical impact, is one of the ‘holy grails’ of modern infectious disease outbreak response, yet it is difficult to achieve ... -
The Rippling Effect of Social Influence via Phone Communication Network
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Is social capital associated with synchronization in human communication? An analysis of Italian call records and measures of civic engagement
(EPJ Data Science, 2018-07-17)Social capital has been studied in economics, sociology and political science as one of the key elements that promote the development of modern societies. It can be defined as the source of capital that facilitates cooperation ... -
Digital trade coin: towards a more stable digital currency
(Royal Society Open Science, 2018-07-18)We study the evolution of ideas related to creation of asset-backed currencies over the last 200 years and argue that recent developments related to distributed ledger technologies and blockchains give asset-backed currencies ... -
Is social capital associated with synchronization in human communication? An analysis of Italian call records and measures of civic engagement
(EPJ Data Science, 2018-07-18)Social capital has been studied in economics, sociology and political science as one of the key elements that promote the development of modern societies. It can be defined as the source of capital that facilitates cooperation ... -
How Physical Proximity Shapes Complex Social Networks
(Scientific Reports, 2018-12-07)Social interactions among humans create complex networks and – despite a recent increase of online communication – the interactions mediated through physical proximity remain a fundamental way for people to connect. A ... -
Mapping Time-Varying Accessibility and Territorial Cohesion With Time-Distorted Maps
(IEEE Access, 2019-03-27)Human societies have radically changed from the second half of the 20 th century. Urban areas are increasingly concentrating more people and economic activities. Connections between market economies in different regions ... -
Can an Emoji a Day Keep the Doctor Away? An Explorative Mixed- Methods Feasibility Study to Develop a Self-Help App for Youth With Mental Health Problems
(Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2019-08-23)Today’s smartphones allow for a wide range of “big data” measurement, for example, ecological momentary assessment (EMA), whereby behaviours are repeatedly assessed within a person’s natural environment. With this type of ...