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H. Huang, S. Klettner, M. Schmidt, G. Gartner, S. Leitinger, A. Wagner, R. Steinmann:
"AffectRoute - Considering people´s affective responses to environments for enhancing route planning services";
International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 28 (2014), S. 2456 - 2473.

Humans perceive and evaluate environments affectively. Some places are experienced as unsafe, while some others as attractive and interesting. These affective responses to environments influence people´s daily behavior and decision-making in space, e.g., choosing which route to take, or which place to visit. In this article, we report on a methodology of using people´s affective responses to environments for enhancing computer-based route planning. More specifically, we explore a crowdsourcing approach to model and collect people´s affective responses to environments; an Affect-Space-Model and a mobile application are developed to facilitate this crowdsourcing approach; a routing algorithm (named AffectRoute) is then proposed to aggregate and integrate the collected data for automatic route planning. Evaluation with human participants shows that the routes generated by considering people´s affective responses to environments are significantly preferred over the conventional shortest ones, which are employed in car navigation systems and many online route planners. In conclusion, considering people´s affective responses to environments contributes to the improvement of automatic route planning. The proposed method can be integrated into existing route-planning services (e.g., location-based services) to provide users with more satisfying routing results.

route planning, human wayfinding, affective responses to environments, crowdsourcing

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2014.931585