When I worked with computer scientists, they never had heard of ethics reviews. Such reviews are deeply engrained in social scientists and medical researchers, but I've found a major unawareness among the physical and computer scientists, except for some HCI folks.
Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology University of Toronto 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php Elvis wouldn't be singing "Return to Sender" these days **** PLEASE NOTE NEW ADDRESS AND FAX NUMBER **** _______________________________________________________________________ On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Anthony Townsend wrote: > Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 07:56:51 -0400 > From: Anthony Townsend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [mobile-society] Re: Cell phone users secretly tracked in study > - CNN.com > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
