The Need for Champions for Approximate Social Search
The world has recently witnessed several disasters, wherein the human cost of the catastrophe depended strongly on the delivery time of critical rescue information, mostly through strangers, on the location and status of individuals. Unfortunately, these are often situations wherein technology cease...
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| author | de Montjoye, Y. Haria, J. Cebrian, M. Pentland, Alex |
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| description | The world has recently witnessed several disasters, wherein the human cost of the catastrophe depended strongly on the delivery time of critical rescue information, mostly through strangers, on the location and status of individuals. Unfortunately, these are often situations wherein technology ceases to function. Pen-and-paper solutions then become the only viable option for information transfer. Both the propagation of information in networks and social search through traditional digital devices such as mobile phones and e-mails is welldocumented in the literature. However, existing models usually fail to take into account the cost of the physical propagation of information. We report on the empirical results of a pen-andpaper system involving time-critical approximate social search. In particular, participants'goal is to locate and assess the status of other participants without further knowledge regarding their identity. We show that when there is a cost associated with information propagation, the network efficiency is mainly driven by the presence of strongly motivated individuals who actively seek to acquire and propagate information. © 2011 IEEE. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1378772021-11-10T03:46:14Z The Need for Champions for Approximate Social Search de Montjoye, Y. Haria, J. Cebrian, M. Pentland, Alex The world has recently witnessed several disasters, wherein the human cost of the catastrophe depended strongly on the delivery time of critical rescue information, mostly through strangers, on the location and status of individuals. Unfortunately, these are often situations wherein technology ceases to function. Pen-and-paper solutions then become the only viable option for information transfer. Both the propagation of information in networks and social search through traditional digital devices such as mobile phones and e-mails is welldocumented in the literature. However, existing models usually fail to take into account the cost of the physical propagation of information. We report on the empirical results of a pen-andpaper system involving time-critical approximate social search. In particular, participants'goal is to locate and assess the status of other participants without further knowledge regarding their identity. We show that when there is a cost associated with information propagation, the network efficiency is mainly driven by the presence of strongly motivated individuals who actively seek to acquire and propagate information. © 2011 IEEE. 2021-11-09T14:19:16Z 2021-11-09T14:19:16Z 2011-10 2019-07-26T12:58:05Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/137877 de Montjoye, Y., Haria, J., Cebrian, M. and Pentland, Alex. 2011. "The Need for Champions for Approximate Social Search." en 10.1109/passat/socialcom.2011.198 Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf IEEE MIT web domain |
| spellingShingle | de Montjoye, Y. Haria, J. Cebrian, M. Pentland, Alex The Need for Champions for Approximate Social Search |
| title | The Need for Champions for Approximate Social Search |
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