Music Festivals, Bluetooth Monitoring, Crowd Behavior

Music Festivals, Bluetooth Monitoring and the Behavior of Crowds | MIT Technology Review: "The Roskilde Festival is one of the biggest music festivals in Europe. It takes place over eight days during the summer in Denmark and attracts well over 100,000 people every year. In 2011, Jakob Eg Larsen and pals from the technical University of Denmark set up a curious experiment to observe the patterns of behaviour among festival-goers using Bluetooth technology. . . . “Such information can be very valuable for the Festival organizers in the process of booking and allocating bands to stages,” say Larsen and co. That’s a diverting piece of research that shows how it is possible to monitor the movement and behaviour of crowds on a large scale. It’s not hard to imagine how these kinds of results could be useful for the organisers of future events or indeed how more ambitious monitoring with audience feedback could lead to interesting social interactions on the very largest scales. Ref: http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.3133: Crowds, Bluetooth and Rock’n’Roll: Understanding Music Festival Participant Behavior"

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