6 months of mobile phone data

“What information does your phone provider keep on record? German Green Party member Malte Spitz took his provider, Deutsche Telekom, to court to find out. Deutsche Telekom granted Spitz with that six months of information in a 35,000-item document (more…)

Limits of Predictability in Human Mobility

Quite intriguing the article “Limits of Predictability in Human Mobility” published at Science Magazine in Feb 2010. Here are some interesting excerpts: (more…)

Mobility and evironmental data collection

One tendency in arts and urban computing has been to combine environmental data collection and mobile gadgets, which are integrated in mobile phones, bicycles and cars. The Copenhagen wheel (2009) is one example. The wheel turns any regular bike (more…)