Socio-Physical analytics: Challenges & opportunities

Archan Misra, Kasthuri Jayarajah, Shriguru Nayak, Philips Kokoh Prasetyo, Ee Peng Lim

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Abstract

In this paper, we argue for expanded research into an area called Socio-Physical Analytics, that focuses on combining the behavioral insight gained from mobile-sensing based monitoring of physical behavior with the inter-personal relationships and preferences deduced from online social networks. We highlight some of the research challenges in combining these heterogeneous data sources and then describe some examples of our ongoing work (based on real-world data being collected at SMU) that illustrate two aspects of socio-physical analytics: (a) how additional demographic and online analytics based attributes can potentially provide better insights into the preferences and behaviors of individuals or groups (in terms of movement prediction and understanding of physical vs. online interactions), and (b) how online and physical interactions can help us discover latent characteristics of physical spaces and entities.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationWPA 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Workshop on Physical Analytics, Co-located with MobiSys 2014
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages19-24
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9781450328258
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event2014 ACM Workshop on Physical Analytics, WPA 2014 at ACM MobiSys 2014 - Bretton Woods, NH, United States
Duration: Jun 16 2014Jun 16 2014

Publication series

NameWPA 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Workshop on Physical Analytics, Co-located with MobiSys 2014

Conference

Conference2014 ACM Workshop on Physical Analytics, WPA 2014 at ACM MobiSys 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBretton Woods, NH
Period6/16/146/16/14

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Keywords

  • Information fusion
  • Mobile sensing
  • Social media analytics

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