Sex, Bugs, and Mobile Phones

Given at the "Tackling Epidemics Face On" evening at Birmingham Pint of Science 2015. Held in the Jekyll & Hyde.

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1. Pint of Science 2015 Jekyll & Hyde, Birmingham 18 May 2015 Sex, Bugs, and Mobile Phones Matt Williams University of Birmingham m.j.williams@cs.bham.ac.uk http://www.mattjw.net @voxmjw [Jean-Yves Sgro]
2. [Sean Everton. 2012]
3. 93%adults in the UK that own a mobile phone 61% own a smart phone [Ofcom. 2014]
4. vs 2015 [flickr/x1brett] 2005
5. [flickr/janitors] Location – GPS Location – Cell tower Location – WiFi router Encounters – Bluetooth
6. [Pew. 2015]
8. [flickr/keyslibraries]
9. [flickr/profilerehab]
10. Stanley Milgram
11. [flickr/keyslibraries]
12. hubs like Mr Jacobs allow quick routes through a social network
14. % people num. friends + acquaintances most people typically have 100-150 friends (inc. family)
15. % people 200 followers 10 million followers 60 million followers
16. # sexual partners % people [latora. 2006] Sexual partners in Burkina Faso, via interviews & surveys
18. [SciAm. Barabasi & Bonabeau. 2003.] before after Hub Vaccinated Hub
19. Cell tower logs... Ivory Coast: 5 million users, 2012 Senegal: 9 million users, 2013 Not only Bluetooth experiments... ...mobile phone service providers are also providing big support for research
20. ? [Julia Hyland]