Learning Communities — Understanding Information Flow in Human Networks

  • Authors:
  • A. Pentland

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • BT Technology Journal
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

The Human Dynamics research group is developing methods to automatically map the flow of information within groups and communities using audio collected from wearable sensors such as mobile phones or PDAs. Computational models of group interaction dynamics are then derived from this data, allowing us to answer questions such as: Who influences whom? How much? How can we modify group interactions to promote better information diffusion? The goal is real-time learning and modification of information flow within organisations; we describe initial results and discuss concerns about user privacy.