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 and Dirk Donath
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Ihab Hamzi Hijazi: An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine
Reinhard Koenig: ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Sven Schneider: Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Weimar, Germany
Xin Li: School of Urban Design, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Martin Bielik: Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Weimar, Germany
Gerhard Norbert Johannes Schmit: ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Dirk Donath: Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Weimar, Germany

International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR), 2016, vol. 5, issue 1, 1-19

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.

Date: 2016
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