Mobility research in the age of the smartphone

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 283-291

  Birenboim, Amit ^a   Shoval, Noam ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

GPS; Mobile sensing; Sensors; Smartphone; Tracking

Indexed keywords

GPS; MOBILE COMMUNICATION; MOBILITY; SENSOR; TRACKING;

EID: 84971422250     PISSN: 24694452     EISSN: 24694460     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2015.1100058     Document Type: Article

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