New Web Tool to Measure Subjective Impressions of Urban Environments

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New Web Tool to Measure Subjective Impressions of Urban Environments

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In the latest issue of the journal PLoS One, MIT's Media Lab researchers affords a new online tool that they hope will help social scientists take a more closer look at emotional responses of urban residents to their environments.

The tool provides online volunteers with a couple of images drawn at random from Google Maps' collection of street-level photographs. Each volunteer chooses the image that represents some "qualitative" feature. Research findings show that the perceived-safety scores for neighborhoods in New York are connected well with the prevalence of violent crimes.

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