inria-00616876, version 2
Understanding Human Movement Semantics: A Point of Interest Based Approach
Ionut Trestian
b, 1Kévin Huguenin
a, 2, 3Ling Su b, 1Aleksandar Kuzmanovic b, 1
N° RR-7716 (2011)
Résumé : The recent availability of human mobility traces has driven a new wave of research -- on human movement -- with straightforward applications in wireless/cellular network algorithmic problems. However, all of the studies isolate movement from the environment that surrounds people, i.e., the points of interest that they visit. In this paper we revisit the human mobility problem with new assumptions. We believe that human movement is not independent of the surrounding locations; most of the time people travel with specific goals in mind, visit specific points of interest, and frequently revisit favorite places. Points of interest are also differently spread. We study the correlation between people's trajectories and the differently spread points of interest nearby. More specifically, by analyzing GPS mobility traces of a large number of users located across two distinct geographical locations, we find that: (i) users do not articularly visit only locations that are close to them but the functional aspect of the location matters as well, (ii) although users in different parts of the globe exhibit different time-of-day behavior, we also find that there is a striking correlation in the frequency of visits to the basic points-of-interest categories that we define.
- a – Université de Rennes 1
- b – Northwestern University
- 1 : Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
- Northwestern University
- 2 : ASAP (INRIA - IRISA)
- CNRS : UMR6074 – INRIA – Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) - Rennes – Université de Rennes 1
- 3 : School of Computer Science [Quebec] (SOCS)
- McGill University
- Domaine : Informatique/Calcul parallèle, distribué et partagé
Informatique/Réseaux et télécommunications
Informatique/Informatique mobile
Informatique/Informatique ubiquitaire - Référence interne : RR-7716
- Versions disponibles : v1 (04-10-2011) v2 (01-02-2012)
- inria-00616876, version 2
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- Contributeur : Kévin Huguenin
- Soumis le : Mercredi 1 Février 2012, 09:16:49
- Dernière modification le : Jeudi 2 Février 2012, 14:43:04






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