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Understanding mobility in a social petri dish
Despite the recent availability of large data sets on human movements, a full understanding of the rules governing motion within social systems is still missing, due to incomplete information on the socio-economic factors and to often limited spatio-temporal resolutions. Here we study an entire soci...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3375635/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22708055 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep00457 |
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author | Szell, Michael Sinatra, Roberta Petri, Giovanni Thurner, Stefan Latora, Vito |
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description | Despite the recent availability of large data sets on human movements, a full understanding of the rules governing motion within social systems is still missing, due to incomplete information on the socio-economic factors and to often limited spatio-temporal resolutions. Here we study an entire society of individuals, the players of an online-game, with complete information on their movements in a network-shaped universe and on their social and economic interactions. Such a “socio-economic laboratory” allows to unveil the intricate interplay of spatial constraints, social and economic factors, and patterns of mobility. We find that the motion of individuals is not only constrained by physical distances, but also strongly shaped by the presence of socio-economic areas. These regions can be recovered perfectly by community detection methods solely based on the measured human dynamics. Moreover, we uncover that long-term memory in the time-order of visited locations is the essential ingredient for modeling the trajectories. |
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spelling | pubmed-33756352012-06-15 Understanding mobility in a social petri dish Szell, Michael Sinatra, Roberta Petri, Giovanni Thurner, Stefan Latora, Vito Sci Rep Article Despite the recent availability of large data sets on human movements, a full understanding of the rules governing motion within social systems is still missing, due to incomplete information on the socio-economic factors and to often limited spatio-temporal resolutions. Here we study an entire society of individuals, the players of an online-game, with complete information on their movements in a network-shaped universe and on their social and economic interactions. Such a “socio-economic laboratory” allows to unveil the intricate interplay of spatial constraints, social and economic factors, and patterns of mobility. We find that the motion of individuals is not only constrained by physical distances, but also strongly shaped by the presence of socio-economic areas. These regions can be recovered perfectly by community detection methods solely based on the measured human dynamics. Moreover, we uncover that long-term memory in the time-order of visited locations is the essential ingredient for modeling the trajectories. Nature Publishing Group 2012-06-14 /pmc/articles/PMC3375635/ /pubmed/22708055 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep00457 Text en Copyright © 2012, Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareALike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
spellingShingle | Article Szell, Michael Sinatra, Roberta Petri, Giovanni Thurner, Stefan Latora, Vito Understanding mobility in a social petri dish |
title | Understanding mobility in a social petri dish |
title_full | Understanding mobility in a social petri dish |
title_fullStr | Understanding mobility in a social petri dish |
title_full_unstemmed | Understanding mobility in a social petri dish |
title_short | Understanding mobility in a social petri dish |
title_sort | understanding mobility in a social petri dish |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3375635/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22708055 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep00457 |
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