The latest of the ISEG Research Seminars will be held on 30 April, from 13.00 to 14.00, in the ISEG's Lecture Theatre 3 (Quelhas, 4th Floor).
The keynote speaker at the event will be ISEG Professor Alba Miñano-Mañero, who will present a paper on "City buzz: face-to-face interactions and the urban environment", the abstract for which can be found below.
The 2nd Semester Research Seminars will be held weekly up until 4 June and will feature members of ISEG's faculty, as well as from other Portuguese and international universities. Further information HERE.
Free admission, subject to room capacity.
Abstract
We combine mobile phone call and location data from the United Kingdom to examine the relationship between urban form and face-to-face interactions. We define face-to-face interactions as coincidences in space and time of two individuals who know each other, as evidenced by mobile phone call records. Our analysis explores how the quantity and variety of these interactions vary with an individual's urban environment. Crucially, we disentangle the extent to which these patterns result from the sorting of more sociable individuals into denser areas versus the direct influence of urban characteristics themselves.