Title
Channel-Specific Daily Patterns in Mobile Phone Communication
Abstract
Humans follow circadian rhythms, visible in their activity levels as well as physiological and psychological factors. Such rhythms are also visible in electronic communication records, where the aggregated activity levels of e.g. mobile telephone calls or Wikipedia edits are known to follow their own daily patterns. Here, we study the daily communication patterns of 24 individuals over 18 months, and show each individual has a different, persistent communication pattern. These patterns may differ for calls and text messages, which points towards calls and texts serving a different role in communication. For both calls and texts, evenings play a special role. There are also differences in the daily patterns of males and females both for calls and texts, both in how they communicate with individuals of the same gender versus opposite gender, and also in how communication is allocated at social ties of different nature (kin ties vs. non-kin ties). Taken together, our results show that there is an unexpected richness to the daily communication patterns, from different types of ties being activated at different times of day to different roles of channels and gender differences.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/978-3-319-29228-1_18
Springer Proceedings in Complexity
Field
DocType
Volume
Social psychology,Electronic communication,Communication,Mobile telephone,Communication channel,Artificial intelligence,Mobile phone,Rhythm,Machine learning,Mathematics,Interpersonal ties
Journal
abs/1507.04596
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.43
5
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Talayeh Aledavood1231.98
eduardo aguado lopez240.77
Sam G. B. Roberts31006.36
Felix Reed-Tsochas4243.36
Esteban Moro528019.93
R.I.M. Dunbar6464.40
Jari Saramaki7414.41