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Bayesian collective learning emerges from heuristic social learning
(Cognition, 2021-07)Researchers across cognitive science, economics, and evolutionary biology have studied the ubiquitous phe- nomenon of social learning—the use of information about other people’s decisions to make your own. Decision- making ... -
Can an Emoji a Day Keep the Doctor Away? An Explorative Mixed- Methods Feasibility Study to Develop a Self-Help App for Youth With Mental Health Problems
(Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2019-08-23)Today’s smartphones allow for a wide range of “big data” measurement, for example, ecological momentary assessment (EMA), whereby behaviours are repeatedly assessed within a person’s natural environment. With this type of ... -
Can an Emoji a Day Keep the Doctor Away? An Explorative Mixed-Methods Feasibility Study to Develop a Self-Help App for Youth With Mental Health Problems
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Comment to U.S Copyright Office on Data Provenance and Copyright
(U.S. Copyright Office, 2023-11-01)Scholars have paid much attention to the copying of raw data to train and develop machine learning models. Many have argued that such use of raw data, derived either directly from the internet or from a dataset, is protected ... -
Computational social science: Obstacles and opportunities
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Contextual centrality: going beyond network structure
(Scientific Reports, 2020-06-10)Centrality is a fundamental network property that ranks nodes by their structural importance. However, the network structure alone may not predict successful diffusion in many applications, such as viral marketing and ... -
Contextualizing Human Psychology
(Technology, Mind, and Behavior, 2020-08-29)The study of psychology has been handicapped by the difficulty of measuring how individual traits affect interactions with the surrounding social structures and how this interaction affects both individual life outcomes ... -
COVID-19 policy analysis: labour structure dictates lockdown mobility behaviour
(Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2021-03-31)Countries and cities around the world have resorted to unprecedented mobility restrictions to combat COVID-19 transmission. Here we exploit a natural experiment whereby Colombian cities implemented varied lockdown policies ... -
Digital trade coin: towards a more stable digital currency
(Royal Society Open Science, 2018-07-18)We study the evolution of ideas related to creation of asset-backed currencies over the last 200 years and argue that recent developments related to distributed ledger technologies and blockchains give asset-backed currencies ... -
Diversity of Idea Flows and Economic Growth
(Journal of Social Computing, 2020-09)What role does access to diverse ideas play in economic growth? New forms of geo-located communications and economic data allow measurement of human interaction patterns and prediction of economic outcomes for individuals, ... -
Driver behavior profiling: An investigation with different smartphone sensors and machine learning
(PLOS ONE, 2017-04-10)Driver behavior impacts traffic safety, fuel/energy consumption and gas emissions. Driver behavior profiling tries to understand and positively impact driver behavior. Usually driver behavior profiling tasks involve automated ... -
Economic outcomes predicted by diversity in cities
(EPJ Data Science, 2020-06-24)Much recent work has illuminated the growth, innovation, and prosperity of entire cities, but there is relatively less evidence concerning the growth and prosperity of individual neighborhoods. In this paper we show that ... -
Ethical machines: The human-centric use of artificial intelligence
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Gender Differences in Real-Home Sleep of Young and Older Couples
(Southwest Journal of Pulmonary and Critical Care, 2015-05-19)Objectives: To understand gender differences in sleep quality, architecture and duration of young healthy couples in comparison to older couples in their natural sleep environment. Design: Sleep was monitored in a ... -
Globalization and the shifting centers of gravity of world's human dynamics: Implications for sustainability
(Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019-12-01)World's human dynamics can be parameterized with metrics that explain the current model of economic growth and its sustainability. Changes in the world's human dynamics are crucial for understanding the current state of ... -
Globalization and the shifting centers of gravity of world's human dynamics: Implications for sustainability
(Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019-12-10)World's human dynamics can be parameterized with metrics that explain the current model of economic growth and its sustainability. Changes in the world's human dynamics are crucial for understanding the current state of ... -
How data governance technologies can democratize data sharing for community well-being
(Data & Policy, 2021-07-13)Data sharing efforts to allow underserved groups and organizations to overcome the concentration of power in our data landscape. A few special organizations, due to their data monopolies and resources, are able to decide ... -
How data governance technologies can democratize data sharing for community well-being – Corrigendum
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How Physical Proximity Shapes Complex Social Networks
(Scientific Reports, 2018-12-07)Social interactions among humans create complex networks and – despite a recent increase of online communication – the interactions mediated through physical proximity remain a fundamental way for people to connect. A ... -
Is social capital associated with synchronization in human communication? An analysis of Italian call records and measures of civic engagement
(EPJ Data Science, 2018-07-17)Social capital has been studied in economics, sociology and political science as one of the key elements that promote the development of modern societies. It can be defined as the source of capital that facilitates cooperation ...