On Universality in Human Correspondence Activity Export

@article{citeulike:5839088, abstract = {The identification and modeling of patterns of human activity have important ramifications for applications ranging from predicting disease spread to optimizing resource allocation. Because of its relevance and availability, written correspondence provides a powerful proxy for studying human activity. One school of thought is that human correspondence is driven by responses to received correspondence, a view that requires a distinct response mechanism to explain e-mail and letter correspondence observations. We demonstrate that, like e-mail correspondence, the letter correspondence patterns of 16 writers, performers, politicians, and scientists are well described by the circadian cycle, task repetition, and changing communication needs. We confirm the universality of these mechanisms by rescaling letter and e-mail correspondence statistics to reveal their underlying similarity. 10.1126/science.1174562}, author = {Malmgren, R. Dean and Stouffer, Daniel B. and Campanharo, Andriana S. L. O. and Amaral, Luis A.}, citeulike-article-id = {5839088}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1174562}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.sciencemag.org/content/325/5948/1696.abstract}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.sciencemag.org/content/325/5948/1696.full.pdf}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19779200}, citeulike-linkout-4 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=19779200}, comment = {Alternative mechanisms for fat-tailed distributions of human activity: (1) critical phenomena, (2) non-homogeneous poisson processes. Authors argue for 2.}, day = {25}, doi = {10.1126/science.1174562}, journal = {Science}, keywords = {correspondence, critical, criticalphenomena, email, letters, physics, powerlaw, powerlaws, scaling, sciencemag, socialdynamics, universality}, month = {September}, number = {5948}, pages = {1696--1700}, posted-at = {2009-10-13 18:42:38}, priority = {2}, title = {On Universality in Human Correspondence Activity}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1174562}, volume = {325}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5839088 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5839088 N2 - The identification and modeling of patterns of human activity have important ramifications for applications ranging from predicting disease spread to optimizing resource allocation. Because of its relevance and availability, written correspondence provides a powerful proxy for studying human activity. One school of thought is that human correspondence is driven by responses to received correspondence, a view that requires a distinct response mechanism to explain e-mail and letter correspondence observations. We demonstrate that, like e-mail correspondence, the letter correspondence patterns of 16 writers, performers, politicians, and scientists are well described by the circadian cycle, task repetition, and changing communication needs. We confirm the universality of these mechanisms by rescaling letter and e-mail correspondence statistics to reveal their underlying similarity. 10.1126/science.1174562 IS - 5948 JF - Science EP - 1700 TI - On Universality in Human Correspondence Activity VL - 325 SP - 1696 KW - correspondence KW - critical KW - criticalphenomena KW - email KW - letters KW - physics KW - powerlaw KW - powerlaws KW - scaling KW - sciencemag KW - socialdynamics KW - universality N1 - Alternative mechanisms for fat-tailed distributions of human activity: (1) critical phenomena, (2) non-homogeneous poisson processes. Authors argue for 2. AU - Malmgren, Dean AU - Stouffer, Daniel AU - Campanharo, Andriana AU - Amaral, Luis PY - 2009/09/25/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1174562 ER -