Assessing affective experience of in-situ environmental walk via wearable biosensors for evidence-based design

作者：Chen, Zheng; Schulz, Sebastian; Qiu, Ming; Yang, Wen; He, Xiaofan; Wang, Zhuo; Yang, Ling^*

来源：Cognitive Systems Research, 2018, 52: 970-977.

DOI：10.1016/j.cogsys.2018.09.003

• Environmental neuroscience
• Affective mapping
• Environmental experience

In environmental psychology research, the most commonly used methods are phenomenological interviews and psychometric scales. Recently, with the development of wearable bio-sensing devices, a new approach based on bio-sensing data is becoming possible. In this study, we examined the feasibility of using wearable biosensors to document affective experience during in-situ walk. An eight-channelled Procomp multi-bio-sensing devices (EKG, EEG, skin conductance, temperature, facial EMG, respiration) were used, in addition with a GPS tracker, to measure the in situ physiological affective responses to environmental stimuli. This pilot experiment revealed consistent results between bio-sensing measures and two traditional methods, i.e. phenomenological interviews and psychological Likert scale rating, which indicated that mobile bio-sensing could be a promising method in measuring in-situ affective responses to environmental stimuli as well as diagnosing potential environmental stressor. This new bio-sensory method, as exemplified in this paper, could help identifying negative stressful stimuli and providing evidence-based diagnosis to support design strategies.

• 出版日期2018-12
• 单位同济大学