Crowd-based urban characterization: Extracting crowd behavioral patterns in urban areas from Twitter

3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Location-Based Social Networks, LBSN 2011 - Held in Conjunction with the 19th ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Wakamiya, Shoko ^a   Lee, Ryong ^b   Sumiya, Kazutoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

crowd behavior; location based social network sites; urban characteristics

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL DATA; BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS; COMPARISON RESULT; CROWD BEHAVIOR; LOCATION BASED; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES; SOCIAL NETWORKS; URBAN AREAS; URBAN CHARACTERISTICS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 81855180818     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2063212.2063225     Document Type: Conference Paper

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