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

由于网络化城市背景下公共空间数据的日益丰富，为空间规划和地理信息学提供了多种研究潜力。然而，人作为城市空间的基本组成部分，其情感和情感到目前为止在研究方法上只起到了很小的作用。这项建议旨在为填补这一研究空白做出贡献。新技术的发展，如移动通信设备或可穿戴设备，使空间研究有了根本的新方法，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。特别是在这种情况下，近乎实时地探测、分析和可视化空间数据的可能性必须被认为是非常有前途的。特别是人作为自身和环境的传感器(人体感官评价)的考虑，属于尚未完全涉及的科学研究领域。然而，这不仅仅是感官数据，特别是用户生成的空间数据(VGI)，它的社会和情感方面以及相互作用，都是非常重要的。这项研究计划旨在捕捉公民对环境的感知和感受，并将其与从社交网络获得的更多信息进行丰富和关联。这是对如何使人类情绪监测在城市空间中得到有益使用的根本新方法的尝试。这特别包括数据收集、数据分析、规划过程中的潜在用途以及有关对隐私的批判性反思的要求等问题。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，并对有机体城市的运作获得新的见解。生活实验室的主题包括无障碍、自行车机动性和对空间的感知，有助于将这些努力整合到日常生活中。我们研究中的另一个问题是，是否有可能将关于真实世界环境中感知的知识转移到虚拟和增强现实中，以及如何将这些组合技术整合到规划过程中。

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.