How should social mixing be measured: comparing web-based survey and sensor-based methods

• Published in: BMC infectious diseases (ISSN: 1471-2334), vol. 14, p. 136
• BioMed Central, 2014

Contact surveys and diaries have conventionally been used to measure contact networks in different settings for elucidating infectious disease transmission dynamics of respiratory infections. More recently, technological advances have permitted the use of wireless sensor devices, which can be worn by individuals interacting in a particular social context to record high resolution mixing patterns. To date, a direct comparison of these two different methods for collecting contact data has not been performed.

Keywords: Models ; Statistical ; Social Behavior ; Wireless Technology

Reference

• EPFL-ARTICLE-214484
• doi:10.1186/1471-2334-14-136

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