Urban computing leveraging location-based social network data: a survey

TH Silva, AC Viana, F Benevenuto, L Villas… - ACM Computing …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Urban computing is an emerging area of investigation in which researchers study cities
using digital data. Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs) generate one specific type of …

The geography of Pokémon GO: beneficial and problematic effects on places and movement

A Colley, J Thebault-Spieker, AY Lin… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
The widespread popularity of Pokémon GO presents the first opportunity to observe the
geographic effects of location-based gaming at scale. This paper reports the results of a …

Culture and HCI: a review of recent cultural studies in HCI and social networks

L Kyriakoullis, P Zaphiris - Universal Access in the Information Society, 2016 - Springer
Studies on culture in HCI have always drawn the attention of academics. A comprehensive
literature review of recent HCI studies on culture becomes a necessity. This study followed a …

Toward a geographic understanding of the sharing economy: Systemic biases in UberX and TaskRabbit

J Thebault-Spieker, L Terveen, B Hecht - ACM Transactions on …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Despite the geographically situated nature of most sharing economy tasks, little attention
has been paid to the role that geography plays in the sharing economy. In this article, we …

Predictour: Predicting mobility patterns of tourists based on social media user's profiles

HCM Senefonte, MR Delgado, R Lüders… - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes PredicTour, an approach to process check-ins made by users of
location-based social networks (LBSNs), and predict mobility patterns of tourists visiting new …

Cultural values and cross-cultural video consumption on YouTube

M Park, J Park, YM Baek, M Macy - PLoS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Video-sharing social media like YouTube provide access to diverse cultural products from
all over the world, making it possible to test theories that the Web facilitates global cultural …

Understanding cultural influence on perspectives around contact tracing strategies

X Lu, E Jo, S Park, H Hong, Y Chen… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Contact tracing, a major way to curb COVID-19 and other epidemics, has been employed
worldwide, with human interviewing and proximity tracing technology as two major …

User feedback in the app store: a cross-cultural study

E Guzman, L Oliveira, Y Steiner, LC Wagner… - Proceedings of the 40th …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
App stores allow globally distributed users to submit user feedback, in the form of user
reviews, about the apps they download. Previous research has found that many of these …

Tribeflow: Mining & predicting user trajectories

F Figueiredo, B Ribeiro, JM Almeida… - Proceedings of the 25th …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Which song will Smith listen to next? Which restaurant will Alice go to tomorrow? Which
product will John click next? These applications have in common the prediction of user …

[PDF][PDF] Linguistic neighbourhoods: explaining cultural borders on Wikipedia through multilingual co-editing activity

A Samoilenko, F Karimi, D Edler, J Kunegis… - EPJ data science, 2016 - Springer
In this paper, we study the network of global interconnections between language
communities, based on shared co-editing interests of Wikipedia editors, and show that …