Urban Explorations: Analysis of Public Park Usage using Mobile GPS Data

Natural elements spatial configuration and content usage in urban park

Abstract Urban parks are important public multifunctional space used for a wide range of activities. The usage levels of parks depend on the spatial characteristics of the spaces, where its forms and occupancies are referred as the usage-spatial relationship. Natural elements spatial complexity and park usability is of interest in this study. A photo - questionnaire was conducted among 296 of p...

Detecting Dwelling in Urban Environments Using GPS, WiFi, and Geolocation Measurements

A fundamental part of studying human mobility is to detect dwelling. When we dwell at places such as our homes, the supermarket or the local park, we are not necessarily still or stationary, but move around in a confined area. Most, but not all, of our significant places are indoors, which hampers the detection using GPS. In this work, we discuss three different sensor sources and their idiosyn...

Assessing the safety of urban society from the effect of night-time leisure on improving the urban park design process using the MIST evaluation method

The design of urban public park is an important factor which influence urban community leisure. The objective of this study is to investigate the community perceptions on nighttime leisure activities in urban public park. Inventory in the Enghlab park and Kosar garden located at the entrance to the ring mamasani Kosar city Nurabad is done using random sampling. Methodology This study was descri...

A Specific Park for Women or a Public Park: Women’s Preferences and Perspectives on Using City Parks, Case Study: Four Parks in Tehran

Path Analysis of the Effect of mobile phone usage on academic engagement: the Mediating Role of attention

  This study was carried out to provide a structural model for illustrating the structural relationships between the amount of mobile phone usage and academic engagement with mediating role of attention in students at the University of Birjand. The statistical population of this study included all students studying at Birjand University in the academic year 2015-2016. Sample included 200 stude...