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Digital Ethology

Human Behavior in Geospatial Context

Tomas Paus Hye-Chung Kum

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MIT Press
06 August 2024
An edited collection that looks deeply at how humans transform their environments and how these environments, in turn, shape humans.

An edited collection that looks deeply at how humans transform their environments and how these environments, in turn, shape humans.

Countless permutations of physical, built, and social environments surround us in space and time, influencing the air we breathe, how hot or cold we are, how many steps we take, and with whom we interact as we go about our daily lives. Assessing the dynamic processes that play out between humans and the environment is challenging. Digital Ethology, edited by Tomas Paus and Hye-Chung Kum, explores how aggregate area-level data, produced at multiple locations and points in time, can reveal bidirectional-and iterative-relationships between human behavior and the environment through their digital footprints.

Experts from geospatial and data science, behavioral and brain science, epidemiology and public health, ethics, law, and urban planning consider how humans transform their environments and how environments shape human behavior.

Contributors Jose Balsa-Barreiro, Kim A. Bard, Steven Bedrick, Michael Brauer, Thomas Brinkhoff, Nitesh V. Chawla, Tamas David-Barrett, Megan Doerr, Guillaume Dumas, Peter Ejbye-Ernst, Sophia Frangou, Camilla Bank Friis, Jason Gilliland, Kimmo Kaski, Heidi Keller, Fabio Kon, Hye-Chung Kum, Lasse Suonper

Liebst, Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard, Gina S. Lovasi, Daniel P. Lupp, Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, Maria Melchior, M nica Menendez, Virginia Pallante, Tomas Paus, Beate Ritz, Sven Sandin, Abeed Sarker, Cason D. Schmit, Lindsey Smith, Kimberly M. Thompson, Henning Tiemeier, Michele C. Weigle
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Imprint:   MIT Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Volume:   33
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm, 
Weight:   369g
ISBN:   9780262548137
ISBN 10:   0262548135
Pages:   328
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Preface Human Behavior in Geospatial Context 1. Human Brain and Behavior in Geospatial Context 2. How Can Concepts of Ethology Be Applied to Large-Scale Digital Data? 3. Paths to Public Benefit: Constructing Meaning From our Physical and Built Environments Through Digital Observation 4. Characterizing Social Environments in the Physical and Virtual Worlds Using Digital Data 5. Integrating Knowledge from the Individual- to the Population-Level Data Mapping Place-Based Context  6. Geospatial IT Systems for Digital Ethology 7. What Types of Physical and Built Environment Can We Find in Digital Data? 8. How Cities Influence Social Behavior Human Behavior: Real and Digital 9. Putting Actual Behavior Back into the Social Sciences: A Plea for Video-Based Interaction Ethology 10. Geolocation-Centric Monitoring and Characterization of Social Media Chatter for Public Health Context and Health 11. Use of Administrative Databases and Data Governance in Research 12. Challenges in Data Science in the Use of Large-Scale Population Datasets for Scientific Inquiry Bibliography Subject Index

Tomas Paus is Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, and Scientist at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine, University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Hye-Chung Kum is Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management with joint appointments in the Departments of Computer Science & Engineering and Industrial Systems & Engineering at Texas A&M University, where she is the founding director of the Population Informatics Lab.

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