A Cookie-Cutter Approach for Determining Places and Stays from Movement Data

Technological progress with regard to various sensors and mobile devices is constant. In the field of movement data analysis in particular, this has led to new opportunities thanks to data sources such as Global Positioning Systems (GPS). In recent years, many research groups have developed new approaches for analysing this data. Most of these approaches are computationally intensive and unable to deliver results in a reasonable time when run on a mobile device. This paper presents a light-weight approach, called the “cookie-cutter”, which follows an alternative path by using an Eulerian model to determine stays of individuals within reasonable computation time. The quality measures used in this work show that the approach is promising with regard to both accuracy and computing requirements.