This is how we roll: Cultural traits in check-in behaviour

Author

Komninos, Andreas ; Besharat, Jeries ; Garofalakis, John ; Michelakis, Dimitrios

Author_Institution

Comput. & Inf. Sci., Univ. of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

fYear

2014

fDate

8-10 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

225

Lastpage

230

Abstract

We describe our analysis of three months worth of collected human-physical environment interactions (foursquare check-in) data for two European cities: a medium-sized city in the Mediterranean and a larger city in North West Europe. Our analysis shows that though the data generated by the citizens is scarce (i.e. on average less than 15 users checked in at any time during the day), nevertheless they can closely reflect a city´s dynamics. The paper also discusses the strong suggestion of emergent cultural traits from the data and its use to power new pervasive applications based on human-physical interaction.

Keywords

behavioural sciences computing; cultural aspects; social networking (online); ubiquitous computing; check-in behaviour; cultural traits; foursquare check-in data; human-physical environment interactions; pervasive applications; social networks; Cities and towns; Conferences; Cultural differences; Educational institutions; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Mobile communication; Social network services; Check-in data; human-physical interaction; urban social context;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), 2014 IEEE 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Larnaca

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WiMOB.2014.6962175

Filename

6962175