According to our knowledge, the Reality Mining experiment conducted in 2004 was the first to study community dynamics by tracking a sufficient amount people with their personal mobile phones and resulted in the first mobile data set with rich personal behavior and interpersonal interactions. Prior to this experiment, cell phones were not powerful enough to track people.
" The science of reality mining works by measuring people's minute-to-minute behaviors, recording important but often unnoticed details of our interactions with others. These "honest signals" are present in every social interaction and convey enormous amounts of information. We use reality mining in experiments.