Stresscapes: Validating Linkages between Place and Stress Expression on Social Media
Stresscapes: Validating Linkages between Place and Stress Expression on Social Media
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Stresscapes：验证社交媒体上的地点和压力表达之间的联系
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2015
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Thomas W. Jackson
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M. Sykora;C. Robertson;K. Shankardass;Rob Feick;Krystelle Shaughnessy;Becca Coates;Haydn Lawrence;Thomas W. Jackson
了解个人和群体如何感知他们的周围环境，以及不同的物理和社会环境如何影响他们的精神状态，已经引起了研究人员的兴趣。大部分研究都集中在调查为什么某些自然和人为的地方可以产生特定的情绪反应（例如恐惧，厌恶，喜悦等）。以及如何在城市规划和设计等场所营造活动中考虑这些反应。更好地理解地点和情绪状态之间的联系是具有挑战性的，部分原因是认知过程和地点概念都是复杂的，动态的和多方面的，并通过上下文，个人和社会过程的融合来调节。有证据表明，个人在现场和近实时产生的社交媒体数据可能会提供新的见解，个人对周围环境的反应的性质和动态。用户生成的数字数据的爆炸式增长和环境的感知化，特别是在城市环境中，为建立关于场所和心态联系的知识提供了机会，这将为个人和社区设计和促进充满活力的场所营造提供信息。
在本文中，我们提出了一个新的研究，将于今年夏天在加拿大大多伦多地区进行，140名招募的参与者是频繁的，地理标记，Twitter用户。这项研究的目标是评估在城市建筑环境中经历的以及在日常活动中表现出来的情绪、急性和慢性压力。现有的自动语义自然语言处理工具将通过这项研究进行验证，并希望开发的方法可以外推到其他城市环境，以及第二次验证研究已经计划明年在英国伦敦。
Understanding how individuals and groups perceive their surroundings and how different physical and social environments may influence their state-of-mind has intrigued re-searchers for some time. Much of this research has focused on investigating why certain natural and human-built places can engender specific emotive responses (e.g. fear, disgust, joy, etc.) and, by extension, how these responses can be considered in placemaking activities such as urban planning and design. Developing a better understanding of the linkages between place and emotional state is challenging in part because both cognitive processes and the concept of place are complex, dynamic and multi-faceted and are mediated by a confluence of contextual, individual and social processes. There is evidence to suggest that social media data produced by individuals in situ and in near real-time may provide novel insights into the nature and dynamics of individuals' responses to their surroundings. The explosion of user-generated digital data and the sensorization of environments, especially in urban settings, provide opportunities to build knowledge of place and state-of-mind linkages that will inform the design and promotion of vibrant placemaking by individuals and communities.
In this paper we present a novel study, to be undertaken this summer within the Greater Toronto area in Canada, with 140 recruited participants who are frequent, geo-tagging, Twitter users. The goal of the study will be to assess emotional, acute and chronic stress experienced in urban built-environments and as expressed during daily activities. An existing automated semantic natural language processing tool will be validated through this study, and it is hoped that the methodology developed can be extrapolated to other urban environments as well, with a second validation study already planned to take place next year in London, United Kingdom.