Emotions make cities live. Towards mapping emotions of older adults on urban space

TL;DR

This paper introduces a platform that uses a universal emotion tagging system based on the Plutchik Wheel to map older adults' emotional interactions with urban spaces, aiming to promote inclusive urban planning.

Contribution

It proposes a novel emotion tagging platform tailored for older adults, addressing their exclusion from social media-based urban data collection.

Findings

Platform usability was tested successfully.

A prospect study framework was proposed.

The approach enhances understanding of older adults' emotional experiences in cities.

Abstract

Understanding of interaction between people and urban spaces is crucial for inclusive decision making process. Smartphones and social media can be a rich source of behavioral and declarative data about urban space, but it threatens to exclude voice of older adults. The platform proposed in the paper attempts to address this issue. A universal tagging mechanism based on the Pluchik Wheel of Emotion is proposed. Usability of the platform was tested and prospect studies are proposed.