—The advent of ubiquitous, mobile, personal devices creates an unprecedented opportunity to improve our understanding of human movement. In this work, we study human mobility in ...
The blogosphere is changing how people experience war and conflict. We conducted an analysis of 125 blogs written by Iraqi citizens experiencing extreme disruption in their countr...
How do mobility and presence feature as aspects of social life? Using a case study of paroled offenders tracked via Global Positioning System (GPS), we explore the ways that locat...
EVENTMANAGER is a tool that supports peripheral awareness by enabling users to be notified when events of interest take place within their workplace environment. Our initial implem...
In this paper we show that financial information can be used to sense many aspects of human activity. This simple technique gives people information about their daily lives, is ea...
Julia Schwarz, Jennifer Mankoff, H. Scott Matthews