Visualizing social networks based on wireless sensors
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Sociometry as a quantitative method for measuring social relationships is a science also focused on social networks. The development of information technologies on both hardware and software aspects brought success stories on social networks, like facebook or twitter. The analysis over these networks is applied in different areas like management consulting, public health and crime/war fighting, just to mention a few. In this research work, we ran an experiment based on mobility of people wearing badges with wireless sensors. The goal of this experiment is to show the phenomenon of homophily, that is the tendency of individuals to associate with similar others, throw a real-time visualization.
Keywords: Real-Time Visualization; Social Networks; Wireless Sensor Networks; Gossip-Based Networking Protocols; Blockmodeling Algorithms.
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