New Approaches to Human Mobility: Using Mobile Phones for Demographic Research
This article explores new methods for gathering and analyzing spatially rich demographic data using mobile phones. It describes a pilot study (the Human Mobility Project) in which volunteers around the world were successfully recruited to share GPS and cellular tower information on their trajectories and respond to dynamic, location-based surveys using an open-source Android application. The pilot study illustrates the great potential of mobile phone methodology for moving spatial measures beyond residential census units and investigating a range of important social phenomena, including the heterogeneity of activity spaces, the dynamic nature of spatial segregation, and the contextual dependence of subjective well-being.
文章出处:Demography 50(3): 1105-1128
Tags:New,Approaches,to,Human,Mobility,Using,Mobile,Phones,for,Demographic,Research
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