Aesthetic capital: What makes london look beautiful, quiet, and happy?

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 945-955

  Quercia, Daniele ^a   O'Hare, Neil ^a   Cramer, Henriette ^a  

^a YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Cities; Crowdsourcing; Streets; Urban aesthetics; Urban informatics; Visual

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ROADS AND STREETS;

AESTHETICS; CITIES; CROWDSOURCING; URBAN AESTHETICS; URBAN INFORMATICS; VISUAL;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 84899017433     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2531602.2531613     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (36)

1. Alexander, C., Ishikawa, S., and Silverstein, M. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Constructions. Oxford University Press, 1977.
2. Bay, H., Ess, A., Tuytelaars, T., and Van Gool, L. Speeded-up robust features (surf). Computer Vision and Image Understanding 110, 3 (June 2008), 346-359.
3. De Botton, A. The Architecture of Happiness. Knopf Doubleday, 2008.
4. Doersch, C., Singh, S., Gupta, A., Sivic, J., and Efros, A. A. What makes Paris look like Paris? ACM Transaction Graphics (2012).
5. Gehl, J. Cities for People. Island Press, 2010.
6. Geis, K., and Ross, C. A new look at urban alienation: The effect of neighborhood disorder on perceived powerlessness. Social Psychology Quarterly (1998).
7. Glaeser, E. Triumph of the City. Penguin Press, 2011.
8. Heft, H., and , J. L. Evaluating environmental scenes using dynamic versus static displays. Environment and Behavior 32, 3 (2000), 301-322.
9. Hillier, B. Space is the machine, e-version. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
10. Jacobs, J. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Random House, 1961.
11. Jurie, F., and Triggs, B. Creating Efficient Codebooks for Visual Recognition. In Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), IEEE Computer Society (2005).
12. Kelling, G., and Coles, C. Fixing Broken Windows: Restoring Order And Reducing Crime In Our Communities. Free Press, 1998.
13. Komar, V., Wypijewski, J., and Melamid, A. Painting by Numbers: Komar and Melamid's Scientific Guide to Art. University of California Press, 1997.
14. Lindal, P. J., and Hartig, T. Architectural variation, building height, and the restorative quality of urban residential streetscapes. Journal of Environmental Psychology (2012).
15. Lynch, K. The Image of the City. Urban Studies. MIT Press, 1960.
16. Malobabic, J., le Borgne, H., Murphy, N., and O'Connor., N. Detecting the presence of large buildings in natural images. In CBMI 2005-4th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (2005).
17. Manjunath, B. S., Ohm, J. R., Vasudevan, V. V., and Yamada, A. Color and Texture Tescriptors. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology 11, 6 (2001), 703-715.
18. Nasar, J. L. Perception, cognition, and evaluation of urban places. Human Behavior and Environment (1989), 31-56.
19. Nasar, J. L. Urban design aesthetics: The evaluative qualities of building exteriors. Environment and Behavior 26, 3 (1994), 377.
20. Park, D. K., Jeon, Y. S., and Won, C. S. Efficient use of local edge histogram descriptor. In Proceedings of the ACM Workshops on Multimedia (2000).
21. Peterson, G. L. A Model of Preference: Quantitative Analysis of the Perception of the Visual Appearance of Residential Neighborhoods. Journal of Regional Science 7, 1 (1967), 19-31.
22. Quercia, D., Pesce, J. P., Almeida, V., and Crowcroft, J. Psychological Maps 2.0: A web gamification enterprise starting in London. In Proceedings of ACM International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW) (2013).
23. Quercia, D., Schifanella, R., and Aiello, L. M. Shortest Urban Paths or Shortcuts to Happiness? IEEE Computer Society Special Technical Community on Social Networking E-Letter (2013).
24. Quercia, D., Schifanella, R., and Aiello, L. M. The shortest path to happiness: Recommending beautiful, quiet, and happy routes in the city. To Appear (2014).
25. Robert J. Sampson and Jeffrey D. Morenoff and Thomas Gannon-Rowley. Assessing 'Neighborhood Effects': Social Processes and New Directions in Research. Annual Review of Sociology (2002).
26. Salesses, P., Schechtner, K., and Hidalgo, C. The Collaborative Image of The City: Mapping the Inequality of Urban Perception. PLoS ONE (July 2013).
27. Sampson, R. J. When Things Aren't What They Seem: Context and Cognition in Appearance-Based Regulation. Harvard Law Review Forum 125 (May 2012).
28. Sampson, R. J., and Raudenbush, S. W. Seeing Disorder: Neighborhood Stigma and the Social Construction of Broken Windows. Social Psychology Quarterly 67, 4 (2004).
29. Sivic, J., Russell, B. C., Efros, A. A., Zisserman, A., and Freeman, W. T. Discovering objects and their location in images. In In IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (2005).
30. Skogan, W. Disorder and Decline: Crime and the Spiral of Decay in American Neighborhoods. University of California Press, 1990.
31. Stendhal. De L'Amour (On Love). Penguin Classics, 1822.
32. Taylor, N. Legibility and aesthetics in urban design. Journal of Urban Design 14, 2 (2009), 189-202.
33. Von Ahn, L., and Dabbish, L. Designing games with a purpose. Communications of ACM (2008).
34. Weber, R., Schnier, J., and Jacobsen, T. Aesthetics of streetscapes: Influence of fundamental properties on aesthetic judgments of urban space 1, 2. Perceptual and motor skills 106, 1 (2008), 128-146.
35. Yang, J., Jiang, Y.-G., Hauptmann, A. G., and Ngo, C.-W. Evaluating bag-of-visual-words representations in scene classification. In Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (2007).
36. Yeh, C.-H., Ho, Y.-C., Barsky, B. A., and Ouhyoung, M. Personalized photograph ranking and selection system. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia (MM) (2010).