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Do people communicate about their whereabouts? Investigating the relation between user-generated text messages and Foursquare check-in places

open access: yesGeo-spatial Information Science, 2018
The social functionality of places (e.g. school, restaurant) partly determines human behaviors and reflects a region’s functional configuration. Semantic descriptions of places are thus valuable to a range of studies of humans and geographic spaces ...
Ming Li, Rene Westerholt, Alexander Zipf
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Relational POI recommendation model combined with geographic information [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2022
Point of interest (POI) recommendation is a popular personalized location-based service. This paper proposes a Geographic Personal Matrix Factorization (GPMF) model that makes effective use of geographic information from the perspective of the ...
Ke Li   +3 more
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Investigating “Locality” of Intra-Urban Spatial Interactions in New York City Using Foursquare Data

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2016
Thanks to the increasing popularity of location-based social networks, a large amount of user-generated geo-referenced check-in data is now available, and such check-in data is becoming a new data source in the study of mobility and travel ...
Yeran Sun
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INSIGHTS OF GENDER BASED TOURISTS PREFERENCES BY CONSTRUCTING TRAVEL DIARY USING SOCIAL MEDIA DATA [PDF]

open access: yesGeo Journal of Tourism and Geosites, 2021
Insights into traveller’s behavior are important for the Tourism Authority of Thailand to draw up plans and make decisions to manage and promote their capital city (Bangkok) as a tourism hub.
Kunal Dilip CHANDIRAMANI   +2 more
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Transit Zones, Locales, and Locations: How Digital Annotations Affect Communication in Public Places

open access: yesMedia and Communication, 2021
The article presents an analytical concept, the Constitution of Accessibility through Meaning of Public Places (CAMPP) model. The CAMPP model distinguishes different manifestations of public places according to how they facilitate and restrict ...
Eric Lettkemann, Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer
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A tale of many cities: universal patterns in human urban mobility. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2012
The advent of geographic online social networks such as Foursquare, where users voluntarily signal their current location, opens the door to powerful studies on human movement.
Anastasios Noulas   +4 more
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Seduction as control: Gamification at Foursquare

open access: yesManagement Accounting Research, 2021
Abstract Post-disciplinary accounting research has drawn attention to the potential for technologies such as big data analytics and social media to enact new forms of surveillance and control, thereby transforming work, identity and producing anxiety.
Chris Chapman   +2 more
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How can we create a recommender system for tourism? A location centric spatial binning-based methodology using social networks

open access: yesInternational Journal of Information Management Data Insights, 2023
Point of Interest (POI) recommendation is an important Location-Based Social Network (LBSN) task that has become a hotspot in the past decade. It aims to exploit the user's preferences for venues and recommend the POIs for their next visit.
Malika Acharya   +2 more
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CLASSIFICATION OF BUILDING FUNCTION USING AVAILABLE SOURCES OF VGI [PDF]

open access: yesThe International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2018
This paper examines the feasibility of using data from OpenStreetMap (OSM), Facebook and Foursquare as a source of information on the function of buildings.
C. C. Fonte   +5 more
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