Enabling geo-design: Evaluating the capacity of 3D city model to support thermal design in building

Enabling geo-design: Evaluating the capacity of 3D city model to support thermal design in buildin

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

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

Assessing Essential Qualities of Urban Space with Emotional and Visual Data Based on GIS Technique

Finding a method to evaluate people’s emotional responses to urban spaces in a valid and objective way is fundamentally important for urban design practices and related policy making. Analysis of the essential qualities of urban space could be made both more effective and more accurate using innovative information techniques that have become available in the era of big data. This study introduces an integrated method based on geographical information systems (GIS) and an emotion-tracking technique to quantify the relationship between people’s emotional responses and urban space. This method can evaluate the degree to which people’s emotional responses are influenced by multiple urban characteristics such as building shapes and textures, isovist parameters, visual entropy, and visual fractals. The results indicate that urban spaces may influence people’s emotional responses through both spatial sequence arrangements and shifting scenario sequences. Emotional data were collected with body sensors and GPS devices. Spatial clustering was detected to target effective sampling locations; then, isovists were generated to extract building textures. Logistic regression and a receiver operating characteristic analysis were used to determine the key isovist parameters and the probabilities that they influenced people’s emotion. Finally, based on the results, we make some suggestions for design professionals in the field of urban space optimization

Using geo statistical analysis to detect similarities in emotional responses of urban walkers to urban space

Using geo statistical analysis to detect similarities in emotional responses of urban walkers to urban spac

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

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

Storm Drainage Network for the City of Redlands, California

The Public Works Department (PWD) at the City of Redlands is in charge of managing the storm drainage system. The PWD is responsible for a number of operations such as maintenance, checking the cleanliness of the sinks, and providing information to the public about the storm drainage system. Presently, PWD storm drainage management activities rely heavily on hard-copy maps generated originally by several consultants. The current work flow has many drawbacks and limitations that are recognized by PWD management. For example, the current work flow is time consuming and has direct impact on the quality of services that the PWD provides to the public. Another drawback is that it does not allow for efficient planning. This affects the network expansion into newly developing areas. The GIS solution that is proposed in this document addresses the above drawbacks and further focuses on two main issues: data migration from current manual hard-copy maps towards a geodatabase, and GIS customized interfaces that enables PWD to better manage the current network. This document provides the methodology for data migration from the hard-copy maps toward ESRI’s geodatabase environment. It also provides PWD with enough information that a trained technical person can further develop and build on the work established under this project. Furthermore, this document describes several customized tools that were developed to address the data maintenance operations and allows PWD to better respond to their customers’ requests