Research Associate | KINGS COLLEGE LONDON

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FieldsDescription
PositionResearch Associate
OrganisationKINGS COLLEGE LONDON
CountryUnited Kingdom
CityLondon
No of Vacancies01
Project NameThe project aims at leveraging online feeds and the associated metadata to build an alternative cartography weighted for positive emotions, adding a layer where citizens opinions and emotions are modeled in time and space at scale. This will enable the implementation of new forms of services, e.g., an emotions-driven routing engine that is able to suggest a happy and pleasant path over the shortest, and urban design policies that favor the human factor over a city built around efficiency, predictability, and security alone.
Skills and Qualifications

Graduate in Urban Planning/Design.

Experience

A minimum of four years of experience

SalaryAs per industry standards

Organisation Details

Map emotional perceptions of urban places from crowdsourced geo-referenced visual and textual data and modelling them in spatio-temporal ways. Develop a routing tool that generates sensory and emotion-aware routes. Qualitatively and quantitatively evaluate the impact of the tool on its users’ well-being over existing tools based only on efficiency and topological criteria.

Job Description

1. Map emotional perceptions of urban places from crowdsourced geo-referenced visual and textual data and modelling them in spatio-temporal ways.
2. Develop a routing tool that generates sensory and emotion-aware routes.
3. Qualitatively and quantitatively evaluate the impact of the tool on its users’ well-being over existing tools based only on efficiency and topological criteria.

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