Research on phones confirms people live by habit

The researchers tracked about 100,000 people using mobile phone signals and came to confirm on June 4, 2008 that most people actually live by habit.

Most of us go to work, go to school and return home to follow unexpectedly predictable patterns, which is what researchers say will be very helpful in planning. Urbanize and get ready for emergency situations.

'Despite the diversity in travel history, people always follow simple replication patterns,' wrote Albert-Laszlo Barabasi of Northeastern University in Boston and his colleagues wrote the article. I posted in Nature.

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'This inherent similarity in walking patterns can affect all phenomena governed by human movement, from disease prevention to response in the case. emergency, urban planning and agent-based modeling, ' the researchers said.

They used the data collected by a European mobile phone company for advertising and operational purposes. 'The data contains the date, time, time and coordinates of the telephone column, transmitting communications. In it, record each call and send or receive messages of 6 million customers'.

Their research has selected 100,000 of these customers. The names of the clients are kept confidential and the links over 600 miles are not included in the study.