Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC), and Lido, C. (2025) iMCD Lifelogging Data. [Data Collection]
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Collection description
Overview:
The Integrated Multimedia City Household Survey dataset was produced as a result of a collaborative Economic and Social Research Council, ESRC-funded project across the University of Glasgow, Newcastle and Sheffield.
The purpose of the iMCD datasets was to provide a 360° overview of a life in the city, combining various datasets and methods of collection.
iMCD Lifelogging Data
UBDC staff developed methods to analyse lifelogging image data collected within the iMCD project with an objective to study people's isolation level in the city. To this end, they use the image set as an attempt to group people with similar social state and behaviour based on the number of faces and number of people they are surrounded by in their everyday life.
Using Computer Vision techniques, UBDC staff detected the number of people and the number of faces on each of the participants’ images. The result of the process was a set of features/characteristics for each participant, among which were the percentage of images they had with nobody, 1 person, etc and also with 1 face, 2 faces, etc. The next step was to cluster the participants based on the above feature space, namely create groups of people with similar social activity. After validation and experimentation, there were three clusters (groups) of people with similar social behaviour: a) low social activity, b) medium social activity, c) high social activity.
The result of this process was to enrich UBDC's existing data of participants with an additional feature, their social group, based on additional survey data.
Access and restrictions:
Licences are available for non-commercial academic research use only. The data is available to request as Safeguarded data under UBDC's End User Licence. To use the data, researchers need to apply to UBDC setting out a summary of the work they plan to undertake so that the usage can be assessed against these criteria. Please apply to UBDC. If the intended use falls within the terms of the licence, researchers will be asked to sign an End User Licence agreement. Datasets will be shared with eligible applicants on receipt of completed license agreements.
More information:
All the iMCD datasets are available at https://data.ubdc.ac.uk/datasets
including iMCD GPS data at https://data.ubdc.ac.uk/datasets/4636e682-bff9-4209-886d-f72c745d7aa0
and iMCD Household Survey and Travel Diary data at https://data.ubdc.ac.uk/datasets/82049317-5fba-4e22-b646-4c75f1ebf6dc
Other related outputs: https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news/data-for-insights-into-mobility
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| College / School: | College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Urban Big Data |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Mar 2026 16:04 |
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| URI: | https://researchdata.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/2008 |
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