Brief encounters: Sensing, modeling and visualizing urban mobility and copresence networks

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Kostakos, Vassilis ^a   O'Neill, Eamonn ^b   Penn, Alan ^c   Roussos, George ^d   Papadongonas, Dikaios ^d  

^a MADEIRA INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Portugal)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bluetooth; Brief encounter; Complex network; Copresence; Encounter; Epidemic; Information diffusion; Mobile interaction; Mobility; Pervasive; Sensing; Social network; Trail; Ubiquitous; Urban computing; Virus; Visualisation

Indexed keywords

CO-PRESENCE; ENCOUNTER COMPLEX; INFORMATION DIFFUSION; MOBILE INTERACTION; PERVASIVE; PERVASIVE SENSING; SOCIAL NETWORKS; URBAN COMPUTING; VISUALISATION;

BLUETOOTH; COMPLEXATION; COMPUTER VIRUSES; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; VIRUSES; VISUALIZATION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 77950683092     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1721831.1721833     Document Type: Article

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