Breaking the habit: measuring and predicting departures from routine in individual human mobility
OA Location
Author(s)
McInerney, J
Stein, S
Rogers, A
Jennings, NR
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Researchers studying daily life mobility patterns have recently shown that humans are typically highly predictable in their movements. However, no existing work has examined the boundaries of this predictability, where human behaviour transitions temporarily from routine patterns to highly unpredictable states. To address this shortcoming, we tackle two interrelated challenges. First, we develop a novel information-theoretic metric, called instantaneous entropy, to analyse an individual?s mobility patterns and identify temporary departures from routine. Second, to predict such departures in the future, we propose the first Bayesian framework that explicitly models breaks from routine, showing that it outperforms current state-of-the-art predictors
Date Issued
2013
Citation
Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 2013, 9, pp.808-822
Start Page
808
End Page
822
Journal / Book Title
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Volume
9
Identifier
http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/356175/
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Computer Science, Information Systems
Telecommunications
Computer Science
COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Context-awareness
Mobile computing
Machine learning
ENTROPY
Networking & Telecommunications
0805 Distributed Computing
1702 Cognitive Science
Article Number
6