Barcelona Visió on Tracing the Visitor's Eye

Barcelona Visió produced a creative 6 minutes documentary on Tracing the Visitor’s Eye, presented in Catalan by my advisor Josep Blat.

Contemplate the Modernista style of the Sagrada Família, the Pedrera and Casa Batlló in the morning, dine on arròs a la cassola (casserole rice) in Barceloneta and round off the day visiting Plaça d’Espanya and Camp Nou may be one of the preferred routes of Japanese tourists who want to get to know the city of Barcelona. Knowing firsthand what visitors see, when, and how they get around the city would be very useful for shops, restaurants and transport services, so that they could adapt to the real demands. A few years ago, to get this information was an over-ambitious dream. Now, new technology has made it possible. The mathematician Josep Blat, together with Fabien Girardin, explains how they have been able to create a map of the routes tourists take, based on information extracted from the photos tourists themselves post on the Flickr website. Science fiction is history!