Mobility Research in the Age of the Smartphone
Mobility Research in the Age of the Smartphone
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DOI：
10.1080/00045608.2015.1100058
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发表时间：
2016-01-01
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Shoval, Noam
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作者：
Birenboim, Amit;Shoval, Noam
截至2014年底，全球超过93%的人口拥有手机，在大多数发达国家，普及率超过100%。移动的电话已经成为我们生活中不可或缺的一部分，并对社会产生了重大影响，包括对个人的日常活动和移动模式。移动电话也被用于研究，并被用来收集关于相对较大人口流动性的时空数据。在这篇文章中，我们提供了一个全面的审查的潜力，先进的移动的手机-被称为智能手机-在调查的地理移动。我们将讨论如何将这些设备用于研究，在时间和空间上跟踪个人，并在真实的时间内作为位置感知调查工具。我们还就智能手机在这种情况下的优势、劣势和局限性进行了辩论，并强调了智能手机推出后开始出现的新研究趋势。
At the end of 2014, over 93 percent of the world's population owned cellular phones, with penetration rates that exceeded 100 percent in most developed countries. Mobile phones have become an integral part of our lives and have had a significant impact on society-including on individuals' daily movement and mobility patterns. Cellular phones have also been used for research and have been employed to collect time-space data about the mobility of relatively large populations. In this article, we provide a comprehensive review of the potential of advanced mobile phones-known as smartphones-in the investigation of the geographies of mobility. We discuss how these devices can be employed in research, tracking individuals in time and space and functioning as location-aware survey tools in real time, among other things. We also engage in a debate over the advantages, disadvantages, and limitations of smartphones in this context and highlight new research trends that are beginning to appear following the introduction of smartphones.