Overview

The explosive growth in personalized devices, social networks, and novel user interfaces is transforming our daily lives by changing the way we interact with each other and co-exist in society. A deeper understanding of human behavior is useful to understand the technology needs of the next generation of communication networks.

Description:

Topics include, but are not limited to:

Observing, mining, modeling and predicting human behavior over communication networks.

Measurement based models of human behavior.
Data Mining and Statistical Methods to analyze large and diverse datasets.
Models of social networks and their dynamics, and their impact on the network.
Analysis of cultural, geographic, economic and demographic variations in behavioral patterns.
Detection of behavioral anomalies based on observed patterns/models, and spatial/temporal correlations.

RFP: Service Creation and Enhancement

RFP: Demographic Variation in Technology Use

RFP: Packet Content Inspection and Flexible Structured Query Mechanisms for Advanced Network Services

New communication mechanisms to induce and adapt to desired behavioral changes.

Mechanism design.
Socially aware design of networked systems: from communication technologies to user interfaces.
Cultural, geographic, economic and demographic impact.