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Understanding collective regularity in human mobility as a familiar stranger phenomenon
Beyond the physical structures that contain daily routines, urban city dwellers repeatedly encounter strangers that similarly shape their environments. Familiar strangers are neither formal acquaintances nor completely anonymous faces in daily urban life. Due to data limitations, there is a lack of...
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2021
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author | Leng, Yan Santistevan, Dominiquo Pentland, Alex |
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description | Beyond the physical structures that contain daily routines, urban city dwellers repeatedly encounter strangers that similarly shape their environments. Familiar strangers are neither formal acquaintances nor completely anonymous faces in daily urban life. Due to data limitations, there is a lack of research focused on uncovering the structure of the “Familiar Stranger” phenomenon at a large scale while simultaneously investigating the social relationships between such strangers. Using countrywide mobile phone records from Andorra, we empirically show the existence of such a phenomenon as well as details concerning these strangers’ relative social relations. To understand the social and spatial components of familiar strangers more deeply, we study the temporal regularity and spatial structure of collective urban mobility to shed light on the mechanisms that guide these interactions. Furthermore, we explore the relationship between social distances and the number of encounters to show that more significant physical encounters correspond to a shorter social distance. Understanding these social and physical networks has essential implications for epidemics spreading, urban planning, and information diffusion. |
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spelling | pubmed-84845932021-10-04 Understanding collective regularity in human mobility as a familiar stranger phenomenon Leng, Yan Santistevan, Dominiquo Pentland, Alex Sci Rep Article Beyond the physical structures that contain daily routines, urban city dwellers repeatedly encounter strangers that similarly shape their environments. Familiar strangers are neither formal acquaintances nor completely anonymous faces in daily urban life. Due to data limitations, there is a lack of research focused on uncovering the structure of the “Familiar Stranger” phenomenon at a large scale while simultaneously investigating the social relationships between such strangers. Using countrywide mobile phone records from Andorra, we empirically show the existence of such a phenomenon as well as details concerning these strangers’ relative social relations. To understand the social and spatial components of familiar strangers more deeply, we study the temporal regularity and spatial structure of collective urban mobility to shed light on the mechanisms that guide these interactions. Furthermore, we explore the relationship between social distances and the number of encounters to show that more significant physical encounters correspond to a shorter social distance. Understanding these social and physical networks has essential implications for epidemics spreading, urban planning, and information diffusion. Nature Publishing Group UK 2021-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8484593/ /pubmed/34593831 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-98475-x Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Leng, Yan Santistevan, Dominiquo Pentland, Alex Understanding collective regularity in human mobility as a familiar stranger phenomenon |
title | Understanding collective regularity in human mobility as a familiar stranger phenomenon |
title_full | Understanding collective regularity in human mobility as a familiar stranger phenomenon |
title_fullStr | Understanding collective regularity in human mobility as a familiar stranger phenomenon |
title_full_unstemmed | Understanding collective regularity in human mobility as a familiar stranger phenomenon |
title_short | Understanding collective regularity in human mobility as a familiar stranger phenomenon |
title_sort | understanding collective regularity in human mobility as a familiar stranger phenomenon |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8484593/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34593831 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-98475-x |
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