From MIT Media Lab
Mar 17 10 10:15am - 12:15pm
Speaker: Anmol Madan
Host/Chair: Alex (Sandy) Pentland
The exposure to new information and opinions, and their diffusion within social networks, are important questions in education, business, and government. However until recently there has been no method to automatically capture fine-grained social interactions between people and use the data to better model the diffusion process. In this thesis, we describe the use of co-location and communication sensors in ‘socially aware’ mobile phones to measure and model the face-to-face interactions, opinions and behaviors of the residents of an undergraduate dormitory for an entire academic year. more ›
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