Contact Patterns in a High School: A Comparison between Data Collected Using Wearable Sensors, Contact Diaries and Friendship Surveys
Centre de Physique Théorique · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · +4 more institutions
Abstract
Given their importance in shaping social networks and determining how information or transmissible diseases propagate in a population, interactions between individuals are the subject of many data collection efforts. To this aim, different methods are commonly used, ranging from diaries and surveys to decentralised infrastructures based on wearable sensors. These methods have each advantages and limitations but are rarely compared in a given setting. Moreover, as surveys targeting friendship relations might suffer less from memory biases than contact diaries, it is interesting to explore how actual contact patterns occurring in day-to-day life compare with friendship relations and with online social links.…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 62.69
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 55
Authors
3- RMRossana MastrandreaCorresponding
Centre de Physique Théorique, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Aix-Marseille Université, Université de Toulon
- JFJulie Fournet
Centre de Physique Théorique, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Aix-Marseille Université, Université de Toulon
- ABAlain Barrat
Centre de Physique Théorique, Science Research Laboratory, Modélisation et Ingénierie des Systèmes Complexes Biologiques pour le Diagnostic
Topics & keywords
- Friendship
- Wearable computer
- Psychology
- Computer science
- Social psychology