Exploring People's Emotional Bond with Places in the City: A Pilot Study

Stals, Shenando; Smyth, Michael; Mival, Oli

Abstract

This paper outlines a thesis that seeks to understand how people's experiences of places in the urban environment that are meaningful to them on a personal level, and in particular their stories and emotions connected to those personally significant places, could potentially inform the design of future technological devices and services. This urban HCI study aims to investigate the different forms this data could take, and the potential for sharing and exploring this personal data with other people using emotion maps. In this paper we introduce the methodology designed to this end, and report on some of the findings of our initial pilot study.

Citation

Stals, S., Smyth, M., & Mival, O. (2017). Exploring People's Emotional Bond with Places in the City: A Pilot Study. In DIS '17 Companion Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems (207-212). https://doi.org/10.1145/3064857.3079147

• Conference Name: DIS '17 Companion Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems: Space, Place and Interface
• Conference Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
• Start Date: Jun 10, 2017
• End Date: Jun 14, 2017
• Acceptance Date: Apr 11, 2017
• Publication Date: Jun 10, 2017
• Deposit Date: Nov 18, 2019
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Pages: 207-212
• Book Title: DIS '17 Companion Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems
• ISBN: 9781450349918
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3064857.3079147
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1794080