Analyzing scale-free property on human serendipitous encounters using mobile phone data
Analyzing scale-free property on human serendipitous encounters using mobile phone data
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使用手机数据分析人类偶然遭遇的无标度属性
DOI:
10.1145/2837126.2837180
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2015
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Akihiro Fujihara
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監修:藤島一郎;大城昌平;編集:吉本好延;監修:藤島一郎,大城昌平 編集:吉本好延;三嶋智之,藤根悦子,末政朱美,服部高幸,岩崎尚美;酒井勇輔,藤原明広;ジナッタポーン カムスリ,藤原明広;Akihiro Fujihara;藤原明広;藤原明広;Akihiro Fujihara
The recent expanded use of mobile phone dataset for research purpose enables studies not only on human mobility patterns, but also on human contact patterns including proximal contact, face-to-face meeting, and serendipitous encounter. In our previous work, we analyze our dataset of long-term experiment with periodic scanning of proximal devices emitting close-range radio waves for wireless communication to investigate the frequency of human serendipitous encounters. As a result, we have found that the frequency of human serendipitous encounter has a scale-free property where the number of encounters is highly biased and its average means nothing. Our dataset is not Big data (the number of participants in our experiment is a few dozen), but it is Long data, but the property is universally observed. It is important to check from a multilateral perspective whether mobile phone data, which is one of well-used Big datasets, also support this fundamental property of human serendipitous encounter. In this paper, we investigate the scale-free property of human contact frequency using mobile phone data of D4D Challenge Senegal which contains hundreds thousands of human mobility traces. Because the data is not provided with high resolution enough to detect exact human encounter at proximity, we roughly assumed that humans who are considered to be placed around the same cell tower encounter with each other. Despite this rough assumption, we successfully reproduce the scale-free property.