University of Helsinki
Mobile Tartu 2024 – one of the highlights of our conference summer – was held on 12-14 June in Tartu, Estonia. Organised by our close colleagues from the Mobility Lab, University of Tartu, this year’s conference focussed on human mobility and mobile big data analytics for just and sustainable societies.
The three conference days of Mobile Tartu 2024 featured a wide variety of paper and poster presentations, engaging panel discussions, and top-notch keynote speeches by Prof Jukka Krisp, Prof Nico Van de Weghe, Assoc Prof Anu Masso and Assoc Prof Robin Lovelace. Many of the current and former members of the Digital Geography Lab were present in Tartu and gathered inspiration from the latest mobility research and fascinating coffee break chats with colleagues from around the world.
The Digital Geography Lab members had an honour to contribute to the conference programme in multiple ways – by presenting our most recent project results, chairing paper sessions, and participating in a panel discussion. Take a look at the brief photo collection of our presentations at Mobile Tartu 2024.
🔶 Olle Järv and Oleksandr Karasov represented the BORDERSPACE project. Olle Järv’s presentation focussed on “Understanding cross-border regions in Europe from the mobility of people: Insights from Big Data” and was co-authored by Håvard W. Aagesen and Ate Poorthuis.
🔶 Oleksandr Karasov presented his study on “Understanding temporal variations in activity spaces of cross-border commuters from social media in the Greater Region of Luxembourg”, co-authored by Olle Järv and Kamyar Hasanzadeh.
🔶 Tuomas Väisänen presented the very fresh results of the Mobi-Twin project “Is long-distance commuting dead in Europe after COVID-19? Insights from georeferenced social media data”, co-authored by Olle Järv and Michaela Söderholm.
🔶 Janika Raun represented the MOBICON project and introduced findings from the study ”Understanding changes of visitors in national parks from mobile data: the COVID-19 short- and long-term influence”, co-authored by Olle Järv, Tatu Leppämäki and Tuuli Toivonen.
🔶 Kerli Müürisepp presented the last paper of her PhD project “Spatial integration or isolation? Residential communities’ daily use of urban space in Helsinki based on mobile phone data”, co-authored by Matti Manninen, Venla Bernelius, Tiit Tammaru, Tuuli Toivonen and Olle Järv.
🔶 Kofoworola Modupe Osunkoya from the Tallinn University of Technology had a poster presentation ”Mapping Vital Urban Areas Through Social Media Activity: A Case of Tallinn, Estonia”, which is based on the research collaboration with Tuomas Väisänen and Olle Järv from the Digital Geography Lab.
🔶 Moreover, we were happy to contribute to the success of the conference by chairing several paper sessions. Last but not the least, Kerli Müürisepp participated in the final panel discussion of the conference “Understanding accessibility and socio-spatial disparities with mobile big data”.
Thank you for the wonderful Mobile Tartu experience! We are looking forward to the 10th anniversary of Mobile Tartu in 2026! 😊
More about Mobile Tartu 2024:
- Conference homepage: https://mobiletartu.ut.ee/
- Recordings of keynote speeches and panel discussions: https://worksup.com/app/#/event/MOBILETARTU2024/
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The Digital Geography Lab is an interdisciplinary research team focusing on spatial Big Data analytics for fair and sustainable societies at the University of Helsinki.