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.

The emotional and chromatic layers of urban smells

AIELLO, LUCA MARIA;SCHIFANELLA, ROSSANO
2016-01-01

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.
2016
10th International Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2016
Cologne, Germany
2016
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2016
AAAI Press
309
318
9781577357582
http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM16/paper/view/13092
urban informatics, smellscape, social media
Quercia, Daniele; Aiello, Luca Maria; Schifanella, Rossano
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