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Geostatistical Analysis for the Study of Relationships between the Emotional Responses of Urban Walkers to Urban Spaces

Geostatistical Analysis for the Study of Relationships between the Emotional Responses of Urban Walkers to Urban Spaces

Ihab Hamzi Hijazi, Reinhard Koenig, Sven Schneider, Xin Li, Martin Bielik, Gerhard Norbert Johannes Schmit, Dirk Donath
Copyright: © 2016 |Volume: 5 |Issue: 1 |Pages: 19
ISSN: 2160-9918|EISSN: 2160-9926|EISBN13: 9781466693449|DOI: 10.4018/IJEPR.2016010101
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Hijazi, Ihab Hamzi, et al. "Geostatistical Analysis for the Study of Relationships between the Emotional Responses of Urban Walkers to Urban Spaces." IJEPR vol.5, no.1 2016: pp.1-19. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJEPR.2016010101

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Hijazi, I. H., Koenig, R., Schneider, S., Li, X., Bielik, M., Schmit, G. N., & Donath, D. (2016). Geostatistical Analysis for the Study of Relationships between the Emotional Responses of Urban Walkers to Urban Spaces. International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR), 5(1), 1-19. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJEPR.2016010101

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Hijazi, Ihab Hamzi, et al. "Geostatistical Analysis for the Study of Relationships between the Emotional Responses of Urban Walkers to Urban Spaces," International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR) 5, no.1: 1-19. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJEPR.2016010101

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Abstract

The described study aims to find correlations between urban spatial configurations and human emotions. To this end, the authors measured people's emotions while they walk along a path in an urban area using an instrument that measures skin conductance and skin temperature. The corresponding locations of the test persons were measured recorded by using a GPS-tracker (n=13). The results are interpreted and categorized as measures for positive and negative emotional arousal. To evaluate the technical and methodological process. The test results offer initial evidence that certain spaces or spatial sequences do cause positive or negative emotional arousal while others are relatively neutral. To achieve the goal of the study, the outcome was used as a basis for the study of testing correlations between people's emotional responses and urban spatial configurations represented by Isovist properties of the urban form. By using their model the authors can explain negative emotional arousal for certain places, but they couldn't find a model to predict emotional responses for individual spatial configurations.

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