Characterising human exploration behaviour

Driven by availability of large-scale data sets, the study of human mobility has flourished in recent
years, creating new solutions to society-wide technological problems and policy issues, from urban
planning and traffic forecasting, to the modelling and simulation of epidemics. We are focusing
in characterising spatio-temporal patterns of human exploration and discovery, by investigating
the mobility behaviour of a densely connected population of 1000 students participating in the
Copenhagen Network Study, ran at the DTU University during the last 3 years. Preliminary results
show how the daily rhythm, the weekly periodicity, and the yearly structure affect human exploration
behaviour in unexpected ways.