Using the critical design approach for rethinking citizens’ emotional bond with urban spaces

Matassa, Assunta; Vernero, Fabiana

doi:10.4108/icst.urb-iot.2014.257205

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“…These aggregated arousal maps were subsequently presented to the participants to act as a catalyst and memory trigger to facilitate public discussion, in order create a better understanding of why those places caused heightened arousal levels for multiple participants (Nold 2009;Frodsham 2015). In a similar approach, Matassa and Vernero proposed to confront participants with, dissonant memories that would contrast their own memory and experience of a particular place, in order to learn how people would react to such distorted and misrepresented signals about the urban space in which they live their daily lives (Matassa and Vernero 2014).…”

Section: Emotion Maps As Speculative Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Capturing, Exploring and Sharing People’s Emotional Bond with Places in the City using Emotion Maps

Stals¹,

Smyth²,

Mival³

2018

airea

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With the vision of ubiquitous computing becoming increasingly realized through smart city solutions, the proliferation of smartphones and smartwatches, and the rise of the quantified-self movement, a new technological layer is being added to the urban environment. This technological layer offers the possibility to capture, track, measure, visualize, and augment our experience of the urban environment. But to that end, there is a growing need to better understand the triangular relationship between person, place, and technology. Urban HCI studies are increasingly focusing on emotion and affect to create a better understanding of people’s experience of the city, and to investigate how technology could potentially play a role in augmenting this urban lived experience. Artist Christian Nold for example, used wearable technology to measure people's arousal levels as they walked freely through the urban environment, identifying locations in the city that evoked an emotional response from people. After these walks, people’s arousal levels were superimposed on a map of the city and participants were asked to interpret their own data, resulting in aggregated, fully annotated, and beautifully visualized emotion maps of the city. Based on a systematic review of emotions maps in existing literature, and our own work which seeks to understand how people’s experiences of places in the urban environment that are meaningful to them on a personal level, for example the place where they have met their partner, could potentially inform the design of future technological devices and services, this journal paper discusses the strengths, limitations and potential of capturing, representing, exploring and sharing this personal, geo-located emotion data with other people using emotion maps. Although our analysis seems to indicate that emotion maps in their current form are only of limited efficacy in accurately capturing, representing and communicating the profound, complex emotional bond that people have with personally meaningful places in the city, there appears to be potential for the use of emotion maps as a provocation in a speculative design approach.

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Section: Emotion Maps As Speculative Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Capturing, Exploring and Sharing People’s Emotional Bond with Places in the City using Emotion Maps

Stals¹,

Smyth²,

Mival³

2018

airea

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“…Yet research in urban informatics focusing on urban experiences such as aesthetics [1] and collective memory [18,25] is relatively sparse and tends to focus on the experiences of small groups [13]. Additionally, little research explores strategies and best practices to promote public futuring -e.g., inviting a broader urban public to engage, debate, and participate in urban computing policy and its implementation.…”

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Aspirational Design and Messy Democracy

Freeman

Bardzell

2017

Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

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Recent research in CSCW, urban informatics, and sociotechnical systems has proposed new framings and emphases of the city as a locus of research on computing and called for a heightened focus on the entanglements of social policy and design. Yet there are relatively few empirical investigations of actual policy-design entanglements in specific cities, and of those available, non-Western cities are underrepresented. We report an empirical study of the 2010 Taipei International Flora Expo (TIFE) as a case to explore these urban informatics/social computing issues. Specifically, we offer an empirically grounded analysis of design as a mechanism of public futuring and debates, which contributes to a better understanding of "participatory urbanship" [6]; and we do so focusing on a non-Western city, both to ensure a broader representation of urban ways of life and also to de-center Western experiences as the primary basis of urban informatics theory in CSCW.

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“…Indeed, theories of embodied cognition suggest that knowledge is generated by coupling action and perception, through continuous body interactions with the environment [1]. The ubiquitous computing era is embedding several computational capabilities and digital information all around in the human living environment, allowing to the users continuous and seamless access to them [16]. Nevertheless, most of these interactions with digital information are characterized by a poor usage of our sensorimotor abilities [8].…”

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Workshop on full-body and multisensory experience in ubiquitous interaction

Matassa¹,

Console²,

Angelini

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2015 AC

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The ubiquitous computing era is bringing to the human the possibility to interact always and everywhere with digital information. However, the interaction means used to access this information exploit only few of the human sensorimotor abilities. Most of these interactions happen through traditional desktop or mobile interfaces, which often involve just vision and hearing senses and require the movement of only one finger. The aim of this workshop is rediscovering the role of human body and senses, focusing on abilities that are often forgotten by the HCI designers, in order to provide new body experiences through the design of novel interactions in smart environments. The focus of this workshop will go beyond the mere design of multimodal interfaces and will exploit theories of embodied cognition to design new full-body experiences to explore ambient space and, more in general, the environment.

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Using the critical design approach for rethinking citizens’ emotional bond with urban spaces

Cited by 5 publications

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Capturing, Exploring and Sharing People’s Emotional Bond with Places in the City using Emotion Maps

Capturing, Exploring and Sharing People’s Emotional Bond with Places in the City using Emotion Maps

Aspirational Design and Messy Democracy

Workshop on full-body and multisensory experience in ubiquitous interaction

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