Projects | Qingqing Chen

Reproducibility and Replicability

homelocator

An open-source R package for identifying home locations in human mobility data

Nationwide Dataset of Activity Space

A nationwide dataset of de-identified activity spaces derived from geotagged social media data

Urban Sensory

Smellscape

Mapping the Invisible-Decoding Perceived Urban Smells through Geosocial Media in New York City

Art of Research

Making invisible smells visible

Space and Place

Entangled footprints

Understanding urban neighbourhoods by measuring distance, diversity, and direction of flows in Singapore

Urban space categorization

Categorizing urban space based on visitor density and diversity - A view through social media data

Urban Street Dynamics

Assessing the Relationship of Sidewalk Width and Pedestrian Activity in Auckland, New Zealand based on Mobile Phone Data

Urban Hotspots

Are Urban Hotspots to Avoid or to Embrace? Determining the Resilience of Auckland City's Urban Hotspots Under Lockdown Constraints

Modeling and Simulation

15-Minutes City

Delinealing a '15-Minute City' - An Agent-based Modeling approach to estimate the size of local communities.

Urban vitality

Human mobility simulation - Investigating the impact of urban vitality indicators on human movements

GeoAI and LLMs

New frontier of information extraction

Exploring the new frontier of information extraction through large language models in urban analytics

Building Attributes Extraction

Evaluating the Feasibility of ChatGPT for Mapping Building Attributes

Public Health

Vaccination debate

Analyzing the vaccination debate in social media data Pre- and Post-COVID-19 pandemic

Vaccine comparison

A comparison between online social media discussions and vaccination rates - A tale of four vaccines

COVID-19 topics

A mixed-method analysis of the convergence and divergence of COVID-19 topics in newspapers and interviews

Resilience

Wildfire resilience

Community resilience to wildfires - A network analysis approach by utilizing human mobility data

Quality of Life

New Urban Kampung

The 'New Urban Kampung' is a S$6-million interdisciplinary research program with team members from architecture, humanities, and engineering pillars. This research aims to develop new strategies and platforms to enable public housing estates to become vibrant collaborative communities, replicating the spirit of the old ‘kampung’ (village) with their strong community care and resilience.