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arXiv:1605.06721 (cs)
[Submitted on 22 May 2016]

Title:The Emotional and Chromatic Layers of Urban Smells

Authors:Daniele Quercia, Luca Maria Aiello, Rossano Schifanella
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Abstract:People are able to detect up to 1 trillion odors. Yet, city planning is concerned only with a few bad odors, mainly because odors are currently captured only through complaints made by urban dwellers. To capture both good and bad odors, we resort to a methodology that has been recently proposed and relies on tagging information of geo-referenced pictures. In doing so for the cities of London and Barcelona, this work makes three new contributions. We study 1) how the urban smellscape changes in time and space; 2) which emotions people share at places with specific smells; and 3) what is the color of a smell, if it exists. Without social media data, insights about those three aspects have been difficult to produce in the past, further delaying the creation of urban restorative experiences.
Comments: 11 pages, 18 figures, final version published in the Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2016)
Subjects: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI); Computers and Society (cs.CY)
Cite as: arXiv:1605.06721 [cs.SI]
  (or arXiv:1605.06721v1 [cs.SI] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1605.06721

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From: Rossano Schifanella [view email]
[v1] Sun, 22 May 2016 01:00:39 UTC (9,167 KB)
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