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Social sensing for epidemiological behavior change

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Madan, Anmol, Cebrian, Manuel, Lazer, David, Pentland, Alex·2010·Proceedings of the 12th ACM international conference on Ubiquitous computing

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An important question in behavioral epidemiology and public health is to understand how individual behavior is affected by illness and stress. Although changes in individual behavior are intertwined with contagion, epidemiologists today do not have sensing or modeling tools to quantitatively measure its effects in real-world conditions. In this paper, we propose a novel application of ubiquitous computing. We use mobile phone based co-location and communication sensing to measure characteristic behavior changes in symptomatic individuals, reflected in their total communication, interactions with respect to time of day (e.g., late night, early morning), diversity and entropy of face-to-face interactions and movement. Using these extracted mobile features, it is possible to predict the health status of an individual, without having actual health measurements from the subject. Finally, we estimate the temporal information flux and implied causality between physical symptoms, behavior and mental health.

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Authors
Madan, A., Cebrian, M., Lazer, D., & Pentland, A.
Affiliations
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
  • Harvard University (US)
Venue
Proceedings of the 12th ACM international conference on Ubiquitous computing
Publisher
ACM
Published
2010-09-26
Pages
291-300
OpenAlex
W2171436624
Cited by
219
References
28
Citations by year
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FWCI
42.39
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) (publishedVersion)
  • DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Transportation › Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
Keywords
social sensing, behavioral epidemiology, mobile phone data, face-to-face interaction, movement patterns, health prediction, mental health, ubiquitous computing

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