5 papers
Persona Prompting in Multimodal Urban Perception: Descriptive Convergence and Interpretive Variation
Neemias da Silva, Matt Ratto, Myriam Delgado +3
This study examines how persona prompting shapes language generated by two multimodal large language models in urban perception, a setting for examining subjective interpretations…
Multimodal LLMs See Sentiment
Neemias B. da Silva, John Harrison, Rodrigo Minetto +3
Understanding how visual content conveys sentiment is increasingly important in a digital landscape dominated by imagery. However, sentiment perception depends on complex scene-lev…
A Relational Model of Neighborhood Mobility: The Role of Amenities and Cultural Alignment
Thiago H Silva, Daniel Silver, Gustavo Santos +1
Why are some neighborhoods strongly connected while others remain isolated? Although standard explanations focus on demographics, economics, and geography, movement across the city…
CityHood: An Explainable Travel Recommender System for Cities and Neighborhoods
Gustavo H Santos, Myriam Delgado, Thiago H Silva
We present CityHood, an interactive and explainable recommendation system that suggests cities and neighborhoods based on users' areas of interest. The system models user interests…
Interest Networks (iNETs) for Cities: Cross-Platform Insights and Urban Behavior Explanations
Gustavo H. Santos, Myriam Delgado, Thiago H. Silva
Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs) provide a rich foundation for modeling urban behavior through iNETs (Interest Networks), which capture how user interests are distributed thr…