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Duncan Barrack
dblp:142/7013
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
0since 2021 · last 2014
—ORCID · unresolved
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing · 1
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Human-computer interaction and pervasive computing
1 paper |
Ubiquitous computing and smart environments · 100% | |
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Spatial and temporal data management · 100% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ubiquitous computing and smart environments › urban computing
human mobility |
0.2 | 1 | 2014 | A refined limit on the predictability of human mobility · PerCom 2014 |
Spatial and temporal data management
trajectory analysis |
0.1 | 1 | 2014 | A refined limit on the predictability of human mobility · PerCom 2014 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
spatial quantization · 0.4GPS trace analysis · 0.4
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | A refined limit on the predictability of human mobilityabstractIt has been recently claimed that human movement is highly predictable. While an upper bound of 93% predictability was shown, this was based upon human movement trajectories of very high spatiotemporal granularity. Recent studies reduced this spatiotemporal granularity down to the level of GPS data, and under a similar methodology results once again suggested a high predictability upper bound (i.e. 90% when movement was quantized down to a spatial resolution approximately the size of a large building). In this work we reconsider the derivation of the upper bound to movement predictability. By considering real-world topological constraints we are able to achieve a tighter upper bound, representing a more refined limit to the predictability of human movement. Our results show that this upper bound is between 11-24% less than previously claimed at a spatial resolution of approx. 100m×100m, with a greater improvement for finer spatial resolutions. This indicates that human mobility is potentially less predictable than previously thought. We provide an in-depth examination of how varying the spatial and temporal quantization affects predictability, and consider the impact of corresponding limits using a large set of real-world GPS traces. Particularly at fine-grained spatial quantizations, where a significant number of practical applications lie, these new (lower) upper limits raise serious questions about the use of location information alone for prediction, contributing more evidence that such prediction must integrate external variables. Gavin Smith, Romain Wieser, James Goulding, Duncan Barrack |
PerCom | 4 |