| Abstract |
Individuals and communities develop affective connection to places. These experiences form an intrinsic part of how they relate to and interact in the built environment, but have received little attention in the smart city agenda. Understanding affect is critical to the design of successful places, and, moreover, to motivating a wide range of changes in cities, such as increased participation or pro-environmental behaviors. This research answers calls in HCI and urban interaction design (UIxD) for a better understanding of affective, place-based experiences. I develop rich, situated understanding of how places function and the types of emotions individuals and communities develop with respect to them, in order to design augmented urban experiences. By probing, speculating and prototyping interactions, I show how affective connection to places can be captured for digital placemaking, which instances of affective interactions can be imagined in future cities, and how such processes can be appropriated by designers, researchers and other disciplines in the built environment. This research ultimately contributes to a vision of a more responsive built environment to human emotion. © 2022 Owner/Author. |