Urban Mobs : how to visualize the cell phone activity in cities ?

Presentation type: 
Demo

Today's modern communication tools are a privileged way to instantly share feelings. Wherever people are communicating, being it in France for the World Music Day, Poland for St. John's Night or Spain and Romania at a football match, these cities live and breathe at their own communications pace.

Urban Mobs provide a tool to study crowd communication activities and paint a “ popular emotion cartography ”.

Urban Mobs is a technology analyzing and visualizing citywide mobile phone activity.

Some video can be accessed here:
www.urbanmobs.fr/en/france/

The LIFT presentation will be in English.


Comments

Ellen Wallace, editor, GenevaLunch.com
These are great fun! It's a whole new way of thinking about a city, which is what I like - pushes us off our usual perches, perspectives.


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