Human Mobility is Not Random, Finds Physicist
Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 16:14
in Psychology & Sociology
In the cover story in this week's Nature magazine, Northeastern University physicist Professor Albert-Laszlo Barabasi and his team found that 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 individuals in real-time and discovered that despite the diversity of their travel history, humans follow simple reproducible patterns.
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