Estimation of human social relation based on device connectivity

Abstract

People in these days use personal smart device as a typical device to communicate with others. Talks, texts, SNS, and even e-mails are available over the smartphones. Thus, we can consider the smartphones are able to represent personal closeness. This paper proposes an estimation model of human social relationship based on analysis of device connectivity. We have collected devicelevel communication data, and analyze them to find out correlation with human social relationships. Experimental results show that the proposed estimation model has linear relationship between device connectivity and human social relations. We can employ these results to construct sociality between devices.