Publications

Journal Articles

Cillian Berragan, Alex Singleton, Alessia Calafiore, and Jeremy Morley. Mapping Great Britain’s semantic footprints through a large language model analysis of Reddit comments Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, Volume 110, June 2024.

Cillian Berragan, Alex Singleton, Alessia Calafiore, and Jeremy Morley.Mapping cognitive place associations within the United Kingdom through online discussion on Reddit. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 00:1–18, 2024.

Alessia Calafiore, Krasen Samardzhiev, Francisco Rowe, Martin Fleischmann, & Daniel Arribas-Bel Inequalities in experiencing urban functions. An exploration of human digital (geo-)footprints. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 0(0), 2023.

Richard James Dunning, Les Dolega, Andrea Nasuto, Alexander Nurse, and Alessia Calafiore. Age and the 20-min city: Accounting for variation in mobility. Applied geography 156 (103005), 2023.

Cillian Berragan, Alex Singleton, Alessia Calafiore, and Jeremy Morley. Transformer based named entity recognition for place name extraction from unstructured text. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 37, no. 4: 747-766, 2023.

Francisco Rowe, Alessia Calafiore, Daniel Arribas-Bel, Krasen Samardzhiev, Martin Fleischmann, Urban Exodus? Understanding Human Mobility in Britain During the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Facebook Data, Population, Space and Place, 29 (1), 2023

Krasen Samardzhiev, Martin Fleischmann, Daniel Arribas-Bel, Alessia Calafiore, Francisco Rowe, Functional signatures in Great Britain: A dataset, Data in Brief, Volume 43, 2022

Alessia Calafiore, Jacob Macdonald, Alex Singleton Decomposing the Temporal Signature of Nitrogen Dioxide Declines during the COVID‑19 Pandemic in UK Urban Areas, Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 2022

Alessia Calafiore, Richard Dunning, Alex Nurse, Alex Singleton, The 20 minute city : an equity analysis of Liverpool City Region, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 101, 2022

Alessia Calafiore, Gregory Palmer, Sam Comber, Daniel Arribas-Bel, Alex Singleton, A geographic data science framework for the functional and contextual analysis of human dynamics within global cities, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 85, 2021

Guido Boella, Alessia Calafiore, Elena Grassi, Amon Rapp, Luigi Sanasi, Claudio Schifanella, FirstLife: Combining Social Networking and VGI to Create an Urban Coordination and Collaboration Platform, IEEE Access, 7, 2019

Guido Boella, Alessia Calafiore, Egidio Dansero, Giacomo Pettenati, Dalla cartografia partecipativa al crowdmapping. Le VGI come strumento per la partecipazione e la cittadinanza attiva, Semestrale di studi e ricerche geografiche, 2017

Francesca De Filippi, Cristina Coscia, Guido Boella, Alessio Antonini, Alessia Calafiore, Anna Cantini, Roberta Guido, Carlo Salaroglio, Luigi Sanasi, Claudio Schifanella, MiraMap: A We-government Tool for Smart Peripheries in Smart Cities, IEEE Access, 4, 2016

Conference Proceedings

Alessia Calafiore, Nombuyiselo Murage, Andrea Nasuto, Francisco Rowe, Deriving Spatio-Temporal Geographies of Human Mobility from GPS traces,Spatial Data Science Symposium 2021 Short Paper Proceedings

Marco Maria Bagliani, Alessia Calafiore, Egidio Dansero, Micol Maggiolini, Giacomo Pettenati, Nadia Tecco, Università come attori di politica ambientale e territoriali. Esperienze in corso all’Università di Torino, XXXII Congresso Geografico Italiano, 2019

Alessia Calafiore, Guido Boella, Leender van der Torre, From Georeferenced Data to Socio-Spatial Knowledge. Ontology Design Patterns to Discover Domain-Specific Knowledge from Crowdsourced Data, European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, 2018

Amon Rapp, Federica Cena, Claudio Mattutino, Alessia Calafiore, Claudio Schifanella, Elena Grassi, Guido Boella,Holistic User Models for Cognitive Disabilities: Personalized Tools for Supporting People with Autism in the City, Adjunct Publication of the 26th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, 2018

Alessia Calafiore, Guido Boella, Stefano Borgo, Nicola Guarino, Urban artefacts and their social roles: towards an ontology of social practices, 13th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2017

Amon Rapp, Federica Cena, Maurizio Tirassa, Guido Boella, Alessia Calafiore, Roberto Keller, Personalized interactive urban maps for autism: enhancing accessibility to urban environments for people with autism spectrum disorder, Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers

Alessia Calafiore, Antonio Cittadino, Egidio Dansero, Alberto Di Gioia, Gabriele Garnero, Paola Guerreschi, Vico Franco, Hackathon@ IODD2014 e HackUniTO: esperienze sullʼuso di Open Geo Data e di crowdmapping, Conferenza Nazionale ASITA, 2014

Book Chapters

Giacomo Pettenati, Egidio Dansero, Alessia Calafiore, Researching and Enabling Youth Geographies in the Digital and Material City: The Teencarto Project, In Angioletta Voghera and Luigi La Riccia Spatial Planning in the Big Data Revolution, 2019

Extended Abstracts

Alessia Calafiore, Measuring Beauty in Urban Settings., The Proceedings of the 28th GISRUK conference, 21st-23rd June 2020

Alessia Calafiore, Guido Boella, Elena Grassi, Claudio Schifanella, Turin’s Foodscapes: Exploring Places of Food Consumption Through the Prism of Social Practice Theory, Proceedings of the First Workshop on Platial Analysis (PLATIAL’18), Heidelberg, Germany, 20–21 September 2018

Alessia Calafiore, Guido Boella, Towards an Understanding of Place Forms through the Lens of Social Practice Theories., JOWO Joint Ontology Workshops, 2017

Alessia Calafiore, Junia Borges, Ana Clara Mourão Moura, Guido Boella, Integrating VGI systems in a Participatory Design Framework, International Conference on Innovation in Urban and Regional Planning, INPUT 2016

Alessio Antonini, Guido Boella, Alessia Calafiore, Carlo Salaroglio, Luigi Sanasi, Claudio Schifanella, First life, the neighborhood social network: A collaborative environment for citizens, Proceedings of the 19th ACM conference on computer supported cooperative work and social computing companion, 2016

Alessio Antonini, Guido Boella, Alessia Calafiore, Federica Cena, Ilaria Lombardi, Carlo Salaroglio, Luigi Sanasi, Claudio Schifanella, Agata Marta Soccini, Sees@ w: Internet of persons meets internet of things for safety at work, 2016

Doctoral Work

Alessia Calafiore, Representing the social character of places: ontology models of the urban environment, 2018