[mobile-society] Re: Cell phone users secretly tracked in study - CNN.com

[Anthony Townsend]

The ethics debate over the apparent total lack of human subjects review for this project is pretty fascinating.

On Jun 5, 2008, at 9:09 AM, Chih-Hui Lai wrote:

Hello all,


http://www.barabasilab.com/pubs/CCNR-ALB_Publications/200806-05_Nature-MobilityPatterns/200806-05_Nature-MobilityPatterns.pdf

best,

Chih-Hui





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,

> 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.


Network Effects on Urban Social Travel Fields. Economic Geographic 49,
134-144.

On the aggregate level, in planning telephone networks and tariff

the 19th century.

A real treat would have been to compare the distance gradients for
different groups, or technologies.

- F. Thomas





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> 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
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I checked on Barabási's lab website and located the original article. The link is as follows. On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 8:29 AM, Frank Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Massachusetts, has worked out some apparently universal laws of human On the individual level, what about Frederick Stutz. 1973. Distance and structures the distance decay of call patterns is used since the end of You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mobile-society" group.

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