5 papers
It is not always greener on the other side: Greenery perception across demographics and personalities in multiple cities
Matias Quintana, Fangqi Liu, Jussi Torkko +9
Quantifying and assessing urban greenery is consequential for planning and development, reflecting the everlasting importance of green spaces for multiple climate and well-being di…
Global urban visual perception varies across demographics and personalities
Matias Quintana, Youlong Gu, Xiucheng Liang +5
Understanding people's preferences is crucial for urban planning, yet current approaches often combine responses from multi-cultural populations, obscuring demographic differences…
Make yourself comfortable: Nudging urban heat and noise mitigation with smartwatch-based Just-in-time Adaptive Interventions (JITAI)
Clayton Miller, Yun Xuan Chua, Matias Quintana +3
Humans can play a more active role in improving their comfort in the built environment if given the right information at the right place and time. This paper outlines the use of Ju…
ZenSVI: An Open-Source Software for the Integrated Acquisition, Processing and Analysis of Street View Imagery Towards Scalable Urban Science
Koichi Ito, Yihan Zhu, Mahmoud Abdelrahman +9
Street view imagery (SVI) has been instrumental in many studies in the past decade to understand and characterize street features and the built environment. Researchers across a va…
What is a Digital Twin Anyway? Deriving the Definition for the Built Environment from over 15,000 Scientific Publications
Mahmoud Abdelrahman, Edgardo Macatulad, Binyu Lei +3
The concept of digital twins has attracted significant attention across various domains, particularly within the built environment. However, there is a sheer volume of definitions…