Smart Sensoring and Barrier Free Planning: Project Outcomes and Recent Developments

As more and more people face mobility constraints due to the natural aging process of the population, barrier-free planning becomes an important urban planning issue. It is elemental to know the place of spatial barriers associated with the negative emotion the “stress” of probands. To achieve this, a method of psycho-physiological monitoring was developed, using a special technical device to measure autonomic bodily functions as indicators for emotions a Smartband. This chapter presents the main characteristics and the outcomes of two projects that have applied the method, one in Germany and the other in Brazil. Future research directions are also discussed in this chapter. In summary, the next steps are to automate the interpretation of the collected data and to combine the existing methods with the development of a smartphone-based app to allow people to give some qualitative hints about urban parameters. Benjamin Sebastian Bergner University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Antônio Nélson Rodrigues da Silva University of São Paulo, Brazil Peter Zeile University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Fabíola de Oliveira Aguiar Center of Technological Sciences Maranhão State University, Brazil Georgios Papastefanou GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany

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