Title :
You are where you eat: Foursquare checkins as indicators of human mobility and behaviour
Author :
Colombo, G.B. ; Chorley, M.J. ; Williams, M.J. ; Allen, Stuart M. ; Whitaker, R.M.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Inf., Cardiff Univ., Cardiff, UK
Abstract :
Location-sharing services such as Foursquare provide a rich source of information about the visits of users to locations. In the case of Foursquare, users voluntarily `check in´ to places they visit using a mobile application. An analysis of these data may reveal differences in users personality in terms of their mobility habits, preferred places, and action and location patterns. This knowledge about user behaviour can be used, in addition to information about their preferences, to improve current recommendation systems for mobile platforms.
Keywords :
mobile computing; recommender systems; user interfaces; Foursquare; human behavior; human mobility; location-sharing service; mobile application; mobility habit; recommendation system; user behaviour; Cities and towns; Communities; Distribution functions; Educational institutions; Humans; Mobile communication; Monitoring; human mobility; location-based services;
Conference_Titel :
Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops), 2012 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Lugano
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0905-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0906-6
DOI :
10.1109/PerComW.2012.6197483
