Digital Footprinting: Uncovering Tourists with User-Generated Content

  • Authors:
  • Fabien Girardin;Francesco Calabrese;Filippo Dal Fiore;Carlo Ratti;Josep Blat

  • Affiliations:
  • Universitat Pompeu Fabra;Massachusetts Institute of Technology;Massachusetts Institute of Technology;Massachusetts Institute of Technology;Universitat Pompeu Fabra

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Pervasive Computing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Novel methods and tools are being developed to explore the significance of the new types of user-related spatiotemporal data. This approach helps uncover the presence and movements of tourists from cell phone network data and the georeferenced photos they generate.