Uncovering the differences and similarities between physical and virtual mobility
- Submitting institution
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University of Exeter
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 6417
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1098/rsif.2020.0250
- Title of journal
- Journal of the Royal Society Interface
- Article number
- ARTN 20200250
- First page
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- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 168
- ISSN
- 1742-5689
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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4
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- Citation count
- 0
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- The understanding of human mobility is of extreme importance to city science, epidemics modelling and social wellbeing. Here, we show that the cognitive mechanisms humans use to make decisions regarding their physical mobility are strikingly similar to how decisions are made in the online world (website visitations). This reveals that people appear to need a physical model for the Web, based on spatial constraints even though these are not present. Furthermore, it leads to a hypothesis that mobility is part of a bigger cognitive mechanism in humans leading to an area of human dynamics as an extension of human mobility.
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- Non-English
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