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#Drink Or #Drunk: Multimodal Signals and Drinking Practices on Instagram

Phan, Thanh-Trung  
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Muralidhar, Skanda
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Gatica-Perez, Daniel  
2019
PervasiveHealth'19: Proceedings of the 13th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare
13th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

The understanding of alcohol consumption patterns, especially those indicating negative drinking behavior, is an important issue to researchers and health policymakers. On social media, people share daily activities, including alcohol consumption, representing these moments through images and text. This work, using a five-year dataset from Instagram, analyzes what machine-extracted textual and visual cues reveal about trends of casual drinking (concepts gathered around #drink) and possible negative drinking (concepts gathered around #drunk). Our analysis reveals that #drunk posts occur more frequently in party occasions and nightlife locations, with a higher presence of people, while #drink posts occur at food locations, with a higher presence of drink containers. Manual coding further shows that #drunk posts have a higher chance of being perceived as potentially objectionable. A random forest classifier shows that #drink and #drunk posts can be discriminated with accuracy up to 82.3%. These results have important implications for alcohol research among youth.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1145/3329189.3329193
Web of Science ID

WOS:000482176100008

Author(s)
Phan, Thanh-Trung  
Muralidhar, Skanda
Gatica-Perez, Daniel  
Date Issued

2019

Published in
PervasiveHealth'19: Proceedings of the 13th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare
Start page

71

End page

80

Subjects

alcohol drinking

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brazil

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canada

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denmark

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ethanol

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greece

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ireland

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multilevel analysis

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New Zealand

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13th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

Trento, Italy

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