An Empirical Analysis of the Human Dynamics Based on Mobile Phone Records

DOI

10.2991/mmebc-16.2016.321How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Mobile phone records, human dynamics, inter-event time distribution, radius of gyration.

Abstract

Mobile phones are widely used by people in modern society, the records of which provide us with an essential proxy for the understanding of human behaviors. Previous empirical results have already shown that some temporal, even spatial, characteristics of many human activities follow power law instead of Poisson statistics. In this paper, we investigate the statistics of human mobile phone communication patterns and their mobility patterns based on mobile phone records. The results show that the distributions of related person and the distributions of inter-event time for four different behaviors all follow power law distribution with different values of exponent. In addition, we have a comparative analysis of human behavior in four different periods of a day, and find out that most of individuals are more active in the afternoon and less active at night in aspects of the diversities of persons they reached and the range of their activities.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Haodong Lyu
AU  - Wenjun Wang
AU  - Pengfei Jiao
AU  - Xiangyu Li
PY  - 2016/06
DA  - 2016/06
TI  - An Empirical Analysis of the Human Dynamics Based on Mobile Phone Records
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 6th International Conference on Machinery, Materials, Environment, Biotechnology and Computer
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1578
EP  - 1584
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/mmebc-16.2016.321
DO  - 10.2991/mmebc-16.2016.321
ID  - Lyu2016/06
ER  -