Affective Cities v.02
An affective geometry emerges from the city, helping us to understand better the city dynamics and interactions. Also, each corner of the city can be transformed into a piece of art, collecting all the feelings, images and texts that the citizens experience near it. Affective Cities is a new way to interact with your city. You can add 'affects' to the city: short messages attached to an emotional state and to a specific time and city location. This new way of interaction unveils a new perspective of the city, that of an affective view, enabling new ways to interact with the city and among citizens. The city livability can be improved through these new affective and citizen-centric perspectives. Affective landscape, emotional overlap from several users is coded in height, thus drawing the city affect geometry. This unlocks new possibilities: you can explore physically affective zones and meet or follow people that resonates with your affective view of the city.
Author : Fran Castillo Acknowledgments : Óscar Marín Miró Research : Affective Cities Categories : Real-Time City, Urban Informatics, Data Visualization Date : December 2012 Image Rights : Fran Castillo