The Urban Emotions approach combines methods and technologies from Volunteered Geographic
Information (VGI), Social Media, sensors and bio-statistical sensors to detect people’s perception for a new
perspective about urban environment. In short, it is a methodology for gaining and extracting contextual
information of emotion by using technologies from real-time human sensing systems and crowdsourcing
methods. “Real-time planning” describes a system in which planning disciplines get a toolset for a fast and
simple creation of visualization or simulation from municipal geodata in a consistent workflow. This
includes applications from Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality as well as the above mentioned combination
of real-time humane sensors and urban sensing systems. Due to the fact, that a real existing city never
corresponds with a laboratory situation, Virtual Reality can be one of the solutions to fill the gap for
detecting people’s perceptions concerning design, while filtering other unintended side effects. Insights and
results from Urban Emotions project, granted by German Research Foundation and Austrian Science Fond,
will be presented in this contribution. It is based on a German contribution, published earlier this year (Zeile
2017)
