Publications by Darshan Santani

The emotional entanglements of smartphones "in the field": on social positioning, power relations, and research ethics

Despite human geographers’ growing recognition of the need to explore how digital technologies are increasingly co‐producing geographies, the methodological implications of such forms of data production are rarely discussed. This paper explores how smartph ...

2020

Youth nightlife at home: towards a feminist conceptualisation of home

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Darshan Santani

This paper explores home as a space of youth nightlife and drinking through a feminist lens. It draws on feminist geographical scholarship on home and 40 semi-structured interviews with young people aged 16–25 in Switzerland in the context of a larger inte ...

2021

Capturing drinking and nightlife behaviours and their social and physical context with a smartphone application - investigation of users' experience and reactivity

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Darshan Santani

Background: Many addictive behaviours are influenced by the context in which they occur, but methods for simultaneously capturing the characteristics of a behaviour and its context are scarce. This study describes a smartphone application developed to docu ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2020

Looking South: Learning Urban Perception in Developing Cities

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Darshan Santani

2018

DrinkSense: Characterizing Youth Drinking Behavior using Smartphones

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Darshan Santani

Alcohol consumption is the number one risk factor for morbidity and mortality among young people. In late adolescence and early adulthood, excessive drinking and intoxication are more common than in any other life period, increasing the risk of adverse phy ...

2018

Insiders and Outsiders: Comparing Urban Impressions between Population Groups

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Darshan Santani

There is a growing interest in social and urban computing to employ crowdsourcing as means to gather impressions of urban perception for indoor and outdoor environments. Previous studies have established that reliable estimates of urban perception can be o ...

ACM2017

SenseCityVity: Mobile Crowdsourcing, Urban Awareness, and Collective Action in Mexico

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Darshan Santani

This work describes SenseCityVity, an approach to engage and support youth in a city in Mexico as they investigate, document, and reflect upon urban problems through mobile crowdsourcing. SenseCityVity focused on the development of a mobile crowdsourcing p ...

Ieee Computer Soc2017

Development of the Geographical Proportional-to-size Street-Intercept Sampling (GPSIS) method for recruiting urban nightlife-goers in an entire city

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Darshan Santani

We developed the Geographical Proportional-to-size Street-Intercept Sampling (GPSIS) method in order to obtain a sample of nightlife-goers which accounted for the diversity of spaces, patrons and locations within two Swiss cities. Popular nightlife zones w ...

2017

Computational Analysis of Urban Places Using Mobile Crowdsensing

Darshan Santani

In cities, urban places provide a socio-cultural habitat for people to counterbalance the daily grind of urban life, an environment away from home and work. Places provide an environment for people to communicate, share perspectives, and in the process for ...

EPFL2016

InnerView: Learning Place Ambiance from Social Media Images

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Darshan Santani, Rui Hu

In the recent past, there has been interest in characterizing the physical and social ambiance of urban spaces to understand how people perceive and form impressions of these environments based on physical and psychological constructs. Building on our earl ...

ACM2016