Reality mining: sensing complex social systems
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Digital Footprinting: Uncovering Tourists with User-Generated Content
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Sensing and predicting the pulse of the city through shared bicycling
IJCAI'09 Proceedings of the 21st international jont conference on Artifical intelligence
EmotionSense: a mobile phones based adaptive platform for experimental social psychology research
Proceedings of the 12th ACM international conference on Ubiquitous computing
Mining Public Transport Usage for Personalised Intelligent Transport Systems
ICDM '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
Prediction of socioeconomic levels using cell phone records
UMAP'11 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on User modeling, adaption, and personalization
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Ubiquitous computing
How smart is your smartcard?: measuring travel behaviours, perceptions, and incentives
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Ubiquitous computing
Tracking "gross community happiness" from tweets
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Finger on the pulse: identifying deprivation using transit flow analysis
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Geo-spotting: mining online location-based services for optimal retail store placement
Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
Urban: crowdsourcing for the good of London
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web companion
Psychological maps 2.0: a web engagement enterprise starting in London
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGKDD International Workshop on Urban Computing
Modelling growth of urban crowd-sourced information
Proceedings of the 7th ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
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A key facet of urban design, planning, and monitoring is measuring communities' well-being. Historically, researchers have established a link between well-being and visibility of city neighbourhoods and have measured visibility via quantitative studies with willing participants, a process that is invariably manual and cumbersome. However, the influx of the world's population into urban centres now calls for methods that can easily be implemented, scaled, and analysed. We propose that one such method is offered by pervasive technology: we test whether urban mobility--as measured by public transport fare collection sensors--is a viable proxy for the visibility of a city's communities. We validate this hypothesis by examining the correlation between London urban flow of public transport and census-based indices of the well-being of London's census areas. We find that not only are the two correlated, but a number of insights into the flow between areas of varying social standing can be uncovered with readily available transport data. For example, we find that deprived areas tend to preferentially attract people living in other deprived areas, suggesting a segregation effect.