Those of the list, who were present last year at Barabasi's presentation in the Nyìri conference in Budapest, certainly remember who we, sociologist and other social scientists, were surprised by the lack of interest of the researchers of this project regarding the social and personal features of the people whose movements they were tracking.
Best Amparo Lasen ----- Mensaje original ----- De: Anthony Townsend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fecha: Viernes, Junio 6, 2008 13:58 Asunto: [mobile-society] Re: Cell phone users secretly tracked in study - CNN.com A: [email protected] > 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, > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
