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Data

• Communication relationships through phone calls made among the entire set of participants for two weeks (June 1st to June 14th, 2010)
• Physical proximity detected through Bluetooth during the same time. The physical proximity data are computed in two layers:
• A pair of people appearing in a physically close distance with other people nearby
  ( If a participant had more than one person nearby in any given period of thirty minutes, one might suspect that the neighbors had a low level of intimacy with her or him.)
• A pair with no other people around

Color Coding & Interaction

• Top Buttons
• The default view shows both communication and physical relationship
• “Only Bluetooth”: shows the relationship linked only through the physical proximity
• “Only Call”: shows the relationship linked only through the phone calls
• Press on a node, then the visualization shows a different color for the four types of relationships of linked nodes:
  • Grey for low-level of physical closeness without call communication
  • Pink for high-level of physical closeness with call communication
  • Blue for only call communication
  • Purple for both exclusive sharing of physical place and call communication
• Stroke weight of the edges
  • Pairs of items with more entries have  thicker curves
• The length of edges does not represent any information.
• When a node is released after click, it position is fixed.

 

Source code: social_networks Edge Node User

Built with Processing