Measuring Geospatial Properties: Relating Online Content Browsing Behaviors to Users’ Points of InterestShow others and affiliations
2018 (English)In: Wireless personal communications, ISSN 0929-6212, E-ISSN 1572-834X, Vol. 101, no 3, p. 1469-1498Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
With the growth of the Mobile Internet, people have become active in both the online and offline worlds. Investigating the relationships between users’ online and offline behaviors is critical for personalization and content caching, as well as improving urban planning. Although some studies have measured the spatial properties of online social relationships, there have been few in-depth investigations of the relationships between users’ online content browsing behaviors and their real-life locations. This paper provides the first insight into the geospatial properties of online content browsing behaviors from the perspectives of both geographical regions and individual users. We first analyze the online browsing patterns across geographical regions. Then, a multilayer-network-based model is presented to discover how inter-user distances affect the distributions of users with similar online browsing interests. Drawing upon results from a comprehensive study of users of three popular online content services in a metropolitan city in China, we achieve a broad understanding of the general and specific geospatial properties of users’ various preferences. Specifically, users with similar online browsing interests exhibit, to a large extent, strong geographic correlations, and different services exhibit distinct geospatial properties in terms of their usage patterns. The results of this work can potentially be exploited to improve a vast number of applications.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2018. Vol. 101, no 3, p. 1469-1498
Keywords [en]
Geospatial properties, Multilayer network, Online content browsing, Online content services, Multilayers, Different services, Geo-spatial, Metropolitan cities, Multi-layer network, On-line contents, Points of interest, Social relationships, Spatial properties, Geographical regions
National Category
Natural Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-33884DOI: 10.1007/s11277-018-5773-7Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85046546444OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-33884DiVA, id: diva2:1211135
2018-05-302018-05-302019-06-17Bibliographically approved