I read : > The study concludes that humans are creatures of habit, mostly > visiting the same few spots time and time again. This is because these researchers often see people as a mass, instead of analysing at the individual level where you can see real movement patterns.
It seems that the author might read what was published in behavioural geography in the 1970s and 1980s before publishing such a truism. Or do a google search with the keywords "action space" "activity space" "interaction field""action field" "behavioural geography". The difference between the early studies and now is that today you can continuously observe a movement pattern whereas before this was more sketchy as having to draw on interviews or sketch maps. So the real challenge is no longer getting the data, but interpreting them. And here the pattern in space needs to be qualified by the nature of mobile phone user, the places visited, the sense of the visit (if you limit your study to the movement aspect). I guess Hägerstrand and his methods now further developed to incorporate the communication age will have a new high time the coming years - Frank Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello all, > > Here is an interesting study reported in the BBC. I am trying to find > the original material. > > Rich L. > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7433128.stm > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mobile-society" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mobile-society?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
