This study investigates how different user groups―students, faculty/staff, and external users―spend time on an urban university campus by analyzing their dwell time and distribution of their stay locations. The target site is a public university located in Tokyo, Japan. Users were classified based on age and occupation attributes associated with anonymized survey data. On-campus segments were identified from continuous location logs, and spatiotemporal metrics such as dwell time and stay frequency were calculated. The findings highlight the campus’s role as a shared environment that accommodates varied stay patterns across different user groups. This study shows that mobile phone GPS data can support an exploratory understanding of stay patterns and inform future campus-planning discussions.
Maki KISHIMOTO (Thu,) studied this question.