Spatial Attention
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A Spatial Attention is a geographic area of interest of an online user.
- Context:
- This concept was introduced by Antoine et al., 2015.
- See: Collective Spatial Attention, Geosocial Network Service, Social Network, User.
References
2015
- (Antoine et al., 2015) ⇒ Émilien Antoine, Adam Jatowt, Shoko Wakamiya, Yukiko Kawai, and Toyokazu Akiyama. (2015). “Portraying Collective Spatial Attention in Twitter.” In: Proceedings of the 21st ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2015). ISBN:978-1-4503-3664-2 doi:10.1145/278
- QUOTE: In this paper we introduce the concept of collective spatial attention. We define spatial attention as the geographic area of interest and focus of an online user. When treated collectively, the spatial attention of many interacting users forms collective signal that can assume different types of patterns. Users at the same time may align their attention towards the same locations due to the occurence of sudden events, shifts in calendar seasons or due to population migrations. Note that the concept of collective spatial attention is orthogonal to the topical and temporal attention that have been recently studied on large collections of user-generated content such as Twitter datasets. Analyzing collective spatial attention offers information complementary to the standard social media analysis and should help us in better characterizing spatial aspects in online media and its dynamics.