# Behavioral Sensing **Entity class:** Sensing and computational-social-science method ## Definition **Behavioral sensing** uses devices, platforms, transactions, communications, mobility records, wearable sensors, and environmental systems to measure patterns of human activity. It turns interaction, location, routine, and change into machine-readable observations for population and individual-level models. ## Relevance to this collection It connects [[wiki/Alex Pentland|Alex Pentland]], [[wiki/Social Physics|Social Physics]], [[wiki/Activity Detection|Activity Detection]], [[wiki/Pattern of Life|Pattern of Life]], and [[wiki/Population Modeling|Population Modeling]]. ## Relationships - **master collection:** [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]]. - **intellectual neighborhood:** [[wiki/Intellectual Neighborhood of the Counterterrorism Collection|Intellectual Neighborhood of the Counterterrorism Collection]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [MIT Connection Science, research catalog](https://connection.mit.edu/research/) (accessed 2026-09-23). **As of:** 2026-09-23