Urban Emotions - development of methods for production of contextual emotion information in spatial planning with the help of human sensory assessment and crowdsourcing technologies in social networks

由于在网络化城市的背景下，公共空间数据的可用性不断增加，空间规划和地理信息学的各种研究潜力。然而，人作为城市空间的基本组成部分，其感受和情感迄今为止在研究方法中只起着次要的作用。本提案旨在为填补这一研究空白做出贡献。新技术的发展，如移动的通信设备或可穿戴设备，从根本上实现了空间研究的新方法，并为创造知识开辟了许多机会，特别是在空间规划和地理信息学的交叉领域。在这方面，必须特别考虑到在接近真实的时间内探测、分析和显示空间数据的可能性是非常有前途的。此外，特别是将人类视为自身及其环境的传感器（人类感官评估）属于尚未完全涵盖的科学研究领域。然而，它不仅仅是感官数据，而且特别是用户生成的空间数据（VGI），其社会和情感方面以及相互作用非常重要。这项研究提案旨在捕捉公民对环境的看法和感受，丰富并将其与从社交网络获得的其他信息联系起来。这是为了尝试从根本上新的方法，如何使监测人类的情绪在城市空间中得到有益的利用。这尤其包括数据收集、数据分析和在规划过程中的潜在用途等问题，以及有关对隐私进行批判性反思的要求。通过这种整体的方法，应该可以发现隐藏的城市模式和因果关系，并为城市有机体的运作提供新的见解。生活实验室的主题是可访问性，自行车移动性和空间感知，有助于将这一努力融入日常生活设置。我们研究中的另一个问题是，是否有可能将真实的世界环境中的感知知识转移到虚拟和增强现实中，以及如何将这些组合技术集成到规划过程中。

Due to the increasing availability of public spatial data in the context of networked cities, a variety of research potentials open for the Spatial Planning and Geoinformatics. However, the human being as a fundamental component of urban spaces with his feelings and emotions so far only plays a minor role in research approaches. This proposal aims to be a contribution for filling this gap in the research. The development of new technologies, such as mobile communication devices or wearables, enables fundamentally new methods for spatial research and opens up many opportunities for the creation of knowledge, especially in the intersection of Spatial Planning and Geoinformatics. Especially the possibility to detect, to analyse and to visualize spatial data in near real time has to be considered as very promising in this context. Furthermore, in particular the consideration of the human being as sensors for himself and his environment (human sensory assessment) belongs to the scientific research field which is not yet fully covered. However, it is not just sensory data, but especially user-generated spatial data (VGI), its social and emotional aspects and the mutual interactions, which are of high importance. This research proposal aims to capture the citizens perceptions and feelings in the environment and to enrich and to correlate it with additional information gained from social networks. This is to attempt fundamentally new approaches on how to make the monitoring of human emotions used gainfully in urban spaces. This includes in particular issues like data collection, data analysis, and the potential use in planning processes as well as the requirements concerning the critical reflection about privacy. With this holistic approach, it should be possible to uncover hidden urban patterns and causalities and to achieve new insights for the functioning of the organism City. Living Labs with the topics of accessibility, bike mobility and perception of space help to integrate this efforts in a daily life set-up. Another question in our research will be, if it is possible to transfer the knowledge about perception in a real world environment to virtual and augmented reality and how can these combined technologies be integrated into planning processes.