Reality mining: sensing complex social systems

We introduce a system for sensing complex social systems with data collected from 100 mobile phones over the course of 9 months. We demonstrate the ability to use standard Bluetooth-enabled mobile telephones to measure information access and use in different contexts, recognize social patterns in daily user activity, infer relationships, identify socially significant locations, and model organizational rhythms. Keywords Mobile phones

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: PUC
• Authors: Nathan Eagle, Alex Pentland
• Keywords: Bluetooth-enabled Mobile Telephones, Complex Social Systems, Mobile Phones, PUC 2006