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The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted everyone’s life and changes our activities and behaviors significantly. It is the first example of “data-rich” pandemic in the human history and opens many research opportunities for the study of Human Dynamics. This chapter provides some representative examples and suggestions for the future development in both short term and long-term periods. The short-term research agenda includes: (1) establishing a transdisciplinary and interoperable COVID-19 data research consortium; (2) facilitating interdisciplinary research collaboration to develop new theories and new methods; (3) identifying the health disparity problems from multiple perspectives; (4) analyzing human mobility changes from multiple data sources. The long-term research agenda emphasize on the long-term impact of COVID-19 pandemics to our local and global communities. The long-term agenda includes: (1) the percentage of work-from-home employees and online education (synchronic or asynchronized) students will increase dramatically; (2) analyzing the dynamic movements of consumer products, and mixed digital online services; (3) using Internet of Things devices to study Human Dynamics; (4) extending the study of Human Dynamics from physical world to Virtual Reality; and (5) facilitating the development of responsive decision support systems for the effective management of Public Health resources and disaster responses in the future.
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Tsou, MH. (2021). The Future of Human Dynamics Study: Research Challenges and Opportunities During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic. In: Nara, A., Tsou, MH. (eds) Empowering Human Dynamics Research with Social Media and Geospatial Data Analytics. Human Dynamics in Smart Cities. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83010-6_15
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