Hello all, I checked on Barabási's lab website and located the original article. The link is as follows.
http://www.barabasilab.com/pubs/CCNR-ALB_Publications/200806-05_Nature-MobilityPatterns/200806-05_Nature-MobilityPatterns.pdf best, Chih-Hui On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 8:29 AM, Frank Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The article has been published in Nature González, M. C. , Hidalgo, C. > A. & Barabási, A.-L. > > > Mobile phones demystify commuter rat race > <http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080604/full/news.2008.874.html> > > Nature 453, 779–782 (2008). > > Has anyone here access to the article ? > > > > Researchers have come up with a new use for the ubiquitous mobile > > phone: tracking human movements. By monitoring the signals from > > 100,000 mobile-phone users sending and receiving calls and text > > messages, a team from Northeastern University in Boston, > > Massachusetts, has worked out some apparently universal laws of human > > motion. > > > > > > > > The distances people covered varied widely between individuals, but > > follow a similar pattern — most people move on average a short > > distance on a daily basis, whereas a few hardy souls move long > > distances in a short time. > > The researchers found a distance decay in movement patterns. Surprise. > > On the individual level, what about Frederick Stutz. 1973. Distance and > Network Effects on Urban Social Travel Fields. Economic Geographic 49, > 134-144. > > On the aggregate level, in planning telephone networks and tariff > structures the distance decay of call patterns is used since the end of > the 19th century. > > A real treat would have been to compare the distance gradients for > different groups, or technologies. > > - F. Thomas > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Hello all, > > > > I have not found the original paper in Nature, but it seems that the > > study has also riven rise to some questions about tracking via use > > of the mobile phone. > > > > Rich L. > > > > http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/06/04/cell.tracking.ap/index.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mobile-society" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mobile-society?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
