Science news articles about 'human mobility'

  • Human Mobility is Not Random, Finds Physicist

    ... humans can be characterized based on how they move. In the article, titled "Understanding Individual Human Mobility Patterns," the authors discuss how, for the first time, they were able to follow ...
  • Human Mobility Study Meets Ethics Approval

    Professor Albert-Laszlo Barabasi and his team have done groundbreaking research into the nature of human mobility, featured on the cover of Nature magazine's June 5 edition. A widely-circulated press ...
  • New human movement model can aid in studying epidemic outbreaks, public planning

    ... . The researchers were then able to emulate these fundamental statistical properties of human mobility into a model that could be used to represent the regular daily movement of humans, Rhee says. ...
  • Viral epidemics poised to go mobile

    ... study builds upon earlier research by the same group, which used mobile phone data to create a predictive model of human mobility patterns. The current work used this model to simulate ...
  • Technology on way to forecasting humanity's needs

    ... a time over six months using mobile phone data, and use worldwide currency traffic as a proxy for human mobility. There are sensors and tags generating data at micro, one-to-one interaction levels, ...

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