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Merging Inhomogeneous Proximity Sensor Systems for Social Network Analysis

Muaremi, Amir
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Gravenhorst, Franz
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Seiter, Julia
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Stojmenovic, I
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Cheng, Z
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2014
Mobile And Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, And Services
10th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems - Computing, Networking, and Services (MOBIQUITOUS)

Proximity information is a valuable source for social network analysis. Smartphone based sensors, like GPS, Bluetooth and ANT+, can be used to obtain proximity information between individuals within a group. However, in real-life scenarios, different people use different devices, featuring different sensor modalities. To draw the most complete picture of the spatial proximities between individuals, it is advantageous to merge data from an inhomogeneous system into one common representation. In this work we describe strategies how to merge data from Bluetooth sensors with data from ANT+ sensors. Interconnection between both systems is achieved using pre-knowledge about social rules and additional infrastructure. Proposed methods are applied to a data collection from 41 participants during an 8 day pilgrimage. Data from peer-to-peer sensors as well as GPS sensors is collected. The merging steps are evaluated by calculating state-of-the art features from social network analysis. Results indicate that the merging steps improve the completeness of the obtained network information while not altering the morphology of the network.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-11569-6_15
Web of Science ID

WOS:000352148200015

Author(s)
Muaremi, Amir
Gravenhorst, Franz
Seiter, Julia
Bexheti, Agon
Arnrich, Bert
Troester, Gerhard
Editors
Stojmenovic, I
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Cheng, Z
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Guo, S
Date Issued

2014

Publisher

Springer Int Publishing Ag

Publisher place

Cham

Published in
Mobile And Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, And Services
ISBN of the book

978-3-319-11568-9

Total of pages

14

Series title/Series vol.

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering

Volume

131

Start page

181

End page

194

Subjects

Proximity

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Smartphones

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Bluetooth

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ANT

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Pilgrims

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10th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems - Computing, Networking, and Services (MOBIQUITOUS)

Tokyo, JAPAN

DEC 02-04, 2013

Available on Infoscience
May 29, 2015
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