• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: The Emotional and Chromatic Layers of Urban Smells
  • Contributor: Quercia, Daniele; Aiello, Luca Maria; Schifanella, Rossano
  • imprint: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2021
  • Published in: Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • Language: Not determined
  • DOI: 10.1609/icwsm.v10i1.14736
  • ISSN: 2334-0770; 2162-3449
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  • Description: <jats:p> 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. </jats:p>