Modeling the co-evolution of behaviors and social relationships using mobile phone data

  • Authors:
  • Wen Dong;Bruno Lepri;Alex (Sandy) Pentland

  • Affiliations:
  • MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA;MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA and FBK, Povo-Trento, Italy;MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The co-evolution of social relationships and individual behavior in time and space has important implications, but is poorly understood because of the difficulty closely tracking the everyday life of a complete community. We offer evidence that relationships and behavior co-evolve in a student dormitory, based on monthly surveys and location tracking through resident cellular phones over a period of nine months. We demonstrate that a Markov jump process could capture the co-evolution in terms of the rates at which residents visit places and friends.