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

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

Antônio Nélson Rodrigues da Silva, Peter Zeile, Fabíola de Oliveira Aguiar, Georgios Papastefanou, Benjamin Sebastian Bergner
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 20
ISBN13: 9781466643499|ISBN10: 1466643498|EISBN13: 9781466643505
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4349-9.ch005
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Rodrigues da Silva, Antônio Nélson, et al. "Smart Sensoring and Barrier Free Planning: Project Outcomes and Recent Developments." Technologies for Urban and Spatial Planning: Virtual Cities and Territories, edited by Nuno Norte Pinto, et al., IGI Global, 2014, pp. 93-112. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4349-9.ch005

APA

Rodrigues da Silva, A. N., Zeile, P., Aguiar, F. D., Papastefanou, G., & Bergner, B. S. (2014). Smart Sensoring and Barrier Free Planning: Project Outcomes and Recent Developments. In N. Pinto, J. Tenedório, A. Antunes, & J. Cladera (Eds.), Technologies for Urban and Spatial Planning: Virtual Cities and Territories (pp. 93-112). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4349-9.ch005

Chicago

Rodrigues da Silva, Antônio Nélson, et al. "Smart Sensoring and Barrier Free Planning: Project Outcomes and Recent Developments." In Technologies for Urban and Spatial Planning: Virtual Cities and Territories, edited by Nuno Norte Pinto, et al., 93-112. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4349-9.ch005

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Abstract

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.

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