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Measuring Geospatial Properties: Relating Online Content Browsing Behaviors to Users’ Points of Interest

Authors: Qiujian Lv, Yuanyuan Qiao, Yi Zhang, Fehmi Ben Abdesslem, Wenhui Lin, Jie Yang

Published in: Wireless Personal Communications | Issue 3/2018

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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.

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Title: Measuring Geospatial Properties: Relating Online Content Browsing Behaviors to Users’ Points of Interest
Authors: Qiujian Lv
Yuanyuan Qiao
Yi Zhang
Fehmi Ben Abdesslem
Wenhui Lin
Jie Yang
Publication date: 07-05-2018
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Wireless Personal Communications / Issue 3/2018
Print ISSN: 0929-6212
Electronic ISSN: 1572-834X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-018-5773-7

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