DocumentCode
606484
Title
How many places do you visit a day?
Author
Papandrea, Michela ; Zignani, Matteo ; Gaito, Sabrina ; Giordano, Stefano ; Rossi, Gian Paolo
Author_Institution
NetLab, SUPSI, Manno, Switzerland
fYear
2013
fDate
18-22 March 2013
Firstpage
218
Lastpage
223
Abstract
People mobility enormously augmented in the last decades. However, despite the increased possibilities of fast reaching far places, the places that a person commonly visits remain limited in number. The number of visited places of each person is regulated by some laws that are statistically similar among individuals. In our previous work, we firstly argued that a person visit most frequently always few places, and we confirmed that by some initial experiments. Here, in addition to further validating this result, we build a more sophisticate view of the places visited by the people. Namely, on top of our previous work, which identifies the class of Mostly Visited Points of Interest, we define two next classes: the Occasionally and the Exceptionally Visited Points of Interest classes. We argue and validate on real data, that also the occasional places are very limited in number, while the exceptional ones can grow at will, and by the analysis of the classes of visited points we can distinguish the type of users mobility. This paper firstly demonstrates this property in large experimental scenario, and put the basis for new understanding of people places in several areas as localization, social interactions and human mobility modelling.
Keywords
mobile computing; social sciences computing; augmented people mobility; exceptionally visited points of interest class; human mobility modelling; localization; mostly visited points of interest; occasionally visited points of interest class; social interactions; Asia; Buildings; Geology; Global Positioning System; Social network services; Trajectory; Transportation; evaluation; human mobility; mobility traces; simulation; visited places;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-5075-4
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4673-5076-1
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/PerComW.2013.6529485
Filename
6529485
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