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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Mobile Phone Data"”.
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Quantifying Urban Social Well-Being using Mobile Phone Data
… healthy societies under the light of new type of data sources, such as mobile phone usage datasets. To this end, first we build up a tool to identify security related incidents from a country, which unstable political conditions held. Then we trace the formulas of healthy societies with examples …
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A data analysis system for mobile phone
This thesis shows the experiment of using the mobile phone application Social Health Tracker to collect participants' mobile phone data and survey answers regarding their social, physical activity and mental concentration level. It also shows the design and the implementation of a Data Analysis …
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From traffic to transmission: adapting an agent-based transport model to simulate the spreading of infectious diseases
… patterns of a synthetic population based on mobile phone data. These patterns are used to identify contacts between synthetic persons. The contacts can be attributed to certain contexts as the MATSim model is activity-based, meaning that different activity types such as work, school or …
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Cell phone location data for travel behavior analysis
Mobile phone technology generates vast amounts of data at low costs all over the world. This rich data provides digital traces when and where individuals travel, improving our ability to understand, model, and predict human mobility. Especially in this era of rapid urbanization, mobile phone data …
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Living Circles Towards Green Travels: A Study on the Correlation Between Facility Layout and Travel Behavior
… road condition). By three empirical studies, via mobile phone data from Tangshan and a regression-clustering methodology, the thesis reveals the influence mechanisms of facility layout on travel.
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Computational privacy : towards privacy-conscientious uses of metadata
… the health and development of societies. Metadata about our whereabouts, social lives, preferences, and finances can be used for good but can also be abused. In this thesis, I show that the richness of today's datasets have rendered traditional data protections strategies outdated, requiring …
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Essays on Strategies for Increasing Repayment Rates of Digital Microloans
… are able to leverage the widespread adoption of mobile phones and mobile money to extend credit quickly and conveniently to more people, especially in developing countries. However, due to a lack of credit bureaus and available financial histories of borrowers, digital lenders frequently need to …
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Scaffolding java programming on a mobile phone for novice learners
The ubiquity of mobile phones provides an opportunity to use them for learning programming beyond the classroom. This would be particularly useful for novice learners of programming in resource- constrained environments. However, limitations of mobile phones, such as small screens and small …
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Understanding human mobility patterns through mobile phone records : a cross-cultural study
… density, income and unemployment rate. Mobile phone records contain very detailed calling information of the spatiotemporal localization of hundreds of thousands of users, which can be used as proxies for human trips. The traveling behaviors of 24 autonomous regions in San Francisco (5 …
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Understanding Urban Vibrancy and Third Places: A Computational Study of the Social Life of Cities Through Multi-Source Digital Trace Data
… have generated large-scale behavioural datasets that offer new opportunities to study these dynamics at high spatial and temporal resolution. However, the social dimensions of urban life beyond residential and workplace settings—particularly those associated with third places—remain …