Quantifying social contacts in a household setting of rural Kenya using wearable proximity sensors

EPJ Data Science

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Kiti, Moses C ^a   Tizzoni, Michele ^b   Kinyanjui, Timothy M ^a,c   Koech, Dorothy C ^a   Munywoki, Patrick K ^a   Meriac, Milosch ^d   Cappa, Luca ^b   Panisson, André ^b   Barrat, Alain ^b,e   Cattuto, Ciro ^b   Nokes, D James ^a,f  

^a KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^b ISI FOUNDATION   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d Bitmanufaktory Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^e CENTRE DE PHYSIQUE THÉORIQUE   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

contact networks; contact patterns; households; infectious disease control; respiratory infections; wearable proximity sensors

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASES; PROXIMITY SENSORS; WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY;

CONTACT NETWORKS; CONTACT PATTERN; HOUSEHOLDS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS;

WEARABLE SENSORS;

EID: 84976407088     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21931127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1140/epjds/s13688-016-0084-2     Document Type: Article

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