Overview of the sessions and timetable as follows.
Paper Session:
1129 Geography and Mobile Phone Data: from theory to empiricsis scheduled on Tuesday, 4/9/2013, from 8:00 AM – 9:40 AM in Santa Monica C, Westin, Level 3Sponsorship(s):
Communication Geography Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Emmanouil Tranos – Vrije University
Rein Ahas – Department of Geography, University of Tartu
Chair(s):
Emmanouil Tranos – Vrije University
8:00 AM – *Rein Ahas – Department of Geography, University of Tartu
Measuring movement patterns of incoming tourists in destination with passive mobile positioning data
8:20 AM – *Yihong Yuan – Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland / Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, USA
Martin Raubal – Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland.
A framework for characterizing human mobility from georeferenced mobile phone data
8:40 AM – *Siiri Silm – Department of Geography, University of Tartu
9:00 AM – *Louis Alberto Gutierrez, Phd Candidate – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Mukkai S. Krishnamoorthy, Associate Professor – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Ron Eglash, Professor – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Solazo Weather App (SWAP): Approximating the Weather
Session Description: Research based on mobile phone data is becoming more and more common in geography, planning and social sciences in general as data collection from mobile networks is cost-effective compared to traditional methods due to the immense penetration rate. Numerous applications can be found in the literature: from signature identification in human mobility in the frame of complexity science to transport management applications. Geography and spatial sciences seem to be highly benefit from this development as data from mobile phone operators, despite the privacy issues, can be seen as an opportunity to model the spatio-temporal dynamics of human behavior.
The objective of this session is to bring together studies which aim to answer in a quantitative manner research questions in the wider area of human geography utilizing this new and exciting data.
Paper Session:
1229 Geography and Mobile Phone Data: from theory to empiricsis scheduled on Tuesday, 4/9/2013, from 10:00 AM – 11:40 AM in Santa Monica C, Westin, Level 3
Sponsorship(s):
Communication Geography Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Emmanouil Tranos – Vrije University
Rein Ahas – Department of Geography, University of Tartu
Chair(s):
Rein Ahas – Department of Geography, University of Tartu
10:00 AM – *Emmanouil Tranos, Dr. – VU Amsterdam, Dept. of Spatial Economics
Piet Rietveld, Prof. – VU Amsterdam, Dept. of Spatial Economics
Mobile phone usage and motorway traffic: a simultaneous equation approach
10:20 AM – *Benjamin Hopkins – California State University, Chico
Are we there yet? How ubiquitous use of mobile devices alters our ability to navigate
10:40 AM – *Kati Nilbe – Department of Geography, University of Tartu
Factors affecting visitors travel distance: a comparison of foreign event visitors´ and regular visitors´ in Estonia
11:00 AM – *Ruth Lane, Dr – Monash University
The Second Life of Mobile Phones
11:20 AM Discussant: Harvey Miller – University of Utah
Session Description: Research based on mobile phone data is becoming more and more common in geography, planning and social sciences in general as data collection from mobile networks is cost-effective compared to traditional methods due to the immense penetration rate. Numerous applications can be found in the literature: from signature identification in human mobility in the frame of complexity science to transport management applications. Geography and spatial sciences seem to be highly benefit from this development as data from mobile phone operators, despite the privacy issues, can be seen as an opportunity to model the spatio-temporal dynamics of human behavior.
1529 Geography and Mobile Phone Data: is there a privacy caveat?
is scheduled on Tuesday, 4/9/2013, from 2:40 PM – 4:20 PM in Santa Monica C, Westin, Level 3Sponsorship(s):
Spatial Analysis and Modeling Specialty Group
Geography, GIScience, and Health: Spatial Frontiers of Health Research and Practice
Organizer(s):
Rein Ahas – Department of Geography, University of Tartu
Chair(s):
Rein Ahas – Department of Geography, University of Tartu
Panelist(s):
Erki Saluveer – University of Tartu
Mike Batty – UCL CASA
Session Description:The use of mobile phone data for scientific research has become increasingly popular among geographers in recent years. Geo-referenced, individual and aggregated data from mobile phone operators enables analysts to uncover fine-grained spatiotemporal dynamics of socio-spatial phenomena that would have not been identified if traditional spatial statistics had been employed. Despite the undoubted potential of mobile phone data for deepening our understanding of critical social issues, its use also raises questions about privacy protection and confidentiality, as it may disclose the home, workplace, activities and trips of individuals in a population under scrutiny.
This panel session seeks to stimulate discussion and reflection about privacy issues related to the use of mobile phone data in social science. The panel will convene experts from different disciplines and backgrounds who have been concerned with the trade-off between privacy protection and accuracy of analytical results. Each panelist will express her/his views on the progress and prospects in this area, followed by open discussions. The objective is to provide an up-to-date picture on what is happening, outline the challenges and facilitate the dialogue on a wide range of aspects related to (geo)privacy including legislation, policy, anonymity and obfuscation strategies. Our plan is to continue the debate initiated by this panel session in a form of a special issue in a high impact journal.
Paper Session:
2476 Spatial Analysis Methods
is scheduled on Wednesday, 4/10/2013, from 12:40 PM – 2:20 PM in Grecian, Biltmore, Mezzanine Level
Organizer(s):
Program Committee
Chair(s):
Michael Babb – University of Washington
Abstract(s):
12:40 PM – *Erki Saluveer – University of Tartu
Liis Murov – Positium LBS
Anto Aasa – University of Tartu
Point pattern spatial interpolation method for mobile positioning data
1:00 PM Author(s): *Jamie L. Sanchagrin – Department of Geography, University of Iowa
Marc Linderman, PhD – Department of Geography, University of Iowa
Jun Chen – University of Iowa
Naresh Kumar, PhD – University of Miami
Spatial Demographic Trends In The Imputation Of Race And Ethnicity In The Decennial US CensuOut-Migration and the Geography of Nonmetropolitan OpportunityExploring Spatial Dependence and Spatial Non-stationarity in Population EstimationIntegrating Place and Social Surveys: Spatial Sampling and Neighborhood Contextualization
1:20 PM – *Byong-Woon Jun – Kyungpook National University
1:40 PM – *Bev Wilson, Ph.D. – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Andrew Greenlee, Ph.D. – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2:00 PM – *Michael Babb – University of Washington
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