Making urban planning and design smarter with participatory mobile biosensing

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Introducing biosensing techniques in urban geography fieldwork activities with students

Publication . Paiva, Daniel; Mantey, Dorota; Silva, Márcia; Ferreira, Daniela; Boavida-Portugal, Inês; Cachinho, Herculano

While biosensing is becoming a popular tool among urban geogra-phers to address the emotional experience of the urban environ-ment, it is also posing significant challenges, as its applicationdemands expertise on technology and human physiology that isnot part of regular curricula in geography courses. Despite this,there is little exploration of how to teach biosensing to urbangeography students. This paper responds to this gap by exploringhow undergraduate urban geography students respond to theintroduction of biosensing techniques in urban geography field-work. Empirically, we draw on two case studies in a European(Warsaw, Poland) and a South American (Cuiaba, Brazil) context.Our findings show how the introduction of biosensing leverageda greater engagement with the body-environment relation in urbanspace, but also sparked a series of technical, methodological, andanalytical challenges for students. With this, we contribute to cur-rent knowledge on the introduction of mobile technologies ingeographical fieldwork. We conclude the paper by providingrecommendations for biosensing training for geographers andfuture research paths on this topic.

2025Journal article

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Biotecnologias em estudos de geografia urbana e no turismo: uma introdução

Publication . Paiva, Daniel

O o objetivo deste projeto é desenvolver e testar metodologias mistas inclusivas e participativas que utilizam dados de biossensores para planejar e projetar áreas de turismo, consumo e lazer saudáveis, conviviais e sustentáveis.

2022-09-30Conference object

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