CORP – Competence Center of Urban and Regional Planning
Abstract
The use of wearables in citizens’ daily life will increase significantly in the coming years. By analyzing these sensor data, it is possible to detect the emotional well-being in urban areas, which is highly relevant for urban planning purposes. Through the combination of several physiological and other sensor data such as GPS, "stress spots" in the urban environment can be recognized and located. A major objective of this project is therefore, to combine and evaluate various research approaches in the field of human as sensorswith wearables. This is the reason why the project group will be an interdisciplinary cooperation between spatial planning, psychophysiology and computer technology.Together with the project partner cities of Neustadt an der Weinstraße and Pirmasens in the German Federal State Rhineland-Palatine, the project group aims to show exemplary the influence of potential stressing factors in the urban area such as traffic and noise and creates scientifically-robust models of stress detection in urban areas. Besides this, a visualization for planning purposes with the tool GeoVisualizer as well as an evaluation of the resilience of such informtion and their potential use for urban planning is aim of the project
