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This book chapter is a review of mobile sensing technologies and computational methods for collective intelligence. We discuss the application of mobile sensing to understand collective mechanisms and phenomena in face-to-face networks at three different scales: organizations, communities and societies. We present an overview of the state-of-the art in individual behavior recognition from sensor data. We discuss related work on group behavior recognition such as face-to-face interaction, social signaling, conversation detection, and conversation dynamics. We also present a brief overview of pattern recognition methods in social network analysis for the automatic identification of groups and the study of social network evolution. We describe a sensor-based organizational design and engineering system for computational collective intelligence applications in organizations. We also provide two example applications of collective intelligence and modeling user behavior at the community scale. Finally, we investigate the impact that these new sensing technologies may have on the understanding of societies, and how these insights can assist in the design of smarter cities and countries.

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Olguín, D.O., Madan, A., Cebrian, M., Pentland, A.(. (2011). Mobile Sensing Technologies and Computational Methods for Collective Intelligence. In: Bessis, N., Xhafa, F. (eds) Next Generation Data Technologies for Collective Computational Intelligence. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 352. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20344-2_21

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