Modern technologies allow to access to more and more detailed information on human
interactions. In this context, the SocioPatterns collaboration has allowed to develop an …

Face-to-face interactions of humans play a crucial role in social relationships as well as in
the potential transmission of infectious diseases. Here we discuss recent research efforts …

This thesis reports the use of wearable sensors to obtain proximity data from students in
schools and household residents in Kenya. Data on who-contacts-whom quantifies …

The original POLYMOD matrices reported the daily numbers of contacts between individuals
of different age groups (0-4, 5-9, 10-14,…, 65-69, 70+ years)[2]. A description of the …

Data from wearable proximity sensors can be used to measure and describe social contact
patterns between individuals in a household. Previous work describing contact patterns, has …

Chapter 5 (“Network representations of complex systems”) summarized general aspects of
how to represent a set of nodes and relationships in a complex network. In this and the …

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One of the motivating questions for many epidemiologists is “how quickly or widely will a
particular infection spread?" To answer this question, often epidemic models are used to …

Face-to-face contacts between individuals contribute to shape social networks and play an
important role in determining how infectious diseases can spread within a population …

Conclusions We report on important properties of the contact patterns between school
children that are relevant for modeling the propagation of diseases and for evaluating …