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ACrowdsourcing asedComputational Methodology forReal-TimeEmotional MappingofUrbanAreas JuanJose´MANRIQUEZSANTOSa,1,Vı´ctorZAMUDIOa, JavierNAVARROb, FaiyazDOCTORc,CarlosLINOa,DavidGUTIE´RREZ-HERNA´NDEZa and RosarioBALTAZARa aDivisionofPostgraduateStudiesandResearch, InstitutoTecnolo´gicodeLeo´n,Mexico bSchoolofComputerScience,UniversityofNottingham,UnitedKingdom cSchoolofComputerScienceandElectronicEngineering,UniversityofEssex,United Kingdom Abstract In thispaperwepresentanovelmethodologyformappingthegeograph- ical distribution of emotions andwellbeingwithin urban and inhabited spaces. A purpose builtmobile application is used to combineGPS datawith an emotional analysisofTwitterpostsandcontextualactivitiesofparticipantsusingafuzzylogic engine.Datagenerated from the application can showhowemotions, triggeredby differentactivitiesandeventsare linkedto locations throughastratifiedrepresenta- tiononamap.Twoseparate studiesarepresentedwheredata is captured fromstu- dents in thecityofLeo´n,Guanajuato,Mexicoandatauniversitycampus.Anemo- tional frequency analysis is performed after several days of data collection from which spatial and temporal emotionalmaps have been determined. This prelimi- nary analysis of these emotionalmaps suggests the feasibility of this approach for supportingbetterunderstandingofemotionalwell-beingpatterns ina smart city. Keywords.Emotion,SmartCities,Map 1. Introduction Depression and suicide in adolescents in the last decade, constitutes a growing social crisis in urbanized areas. Understanding the social, economic and cultural factors that lead to these trends isvital inorder for schools, universities andmunicipal authorities to initiatepre-epmtiveearlydetectionsocialsuportprogrammestoidentifyandtreatpeople suseptableandvulnerable to theseconditions. Therehavebeenanumberofsocial,psychological studiesandcomputationalappli- cations investigating the capturing and analysis of emotion andwell-being in different usergroups. ChavezHerna´ndez et al, reports that from a population of 3249 secondary school students in theStateofGuanajuato,12.4%of themhaveattemptedsuicide[1].Themain 1CorrespondingAuthor: Juan Jose´Manriquez santos, InstitutoTecnolo´gicodeLeo´n,Av.Tecnolo´gicoS/N, Industrial JuliandeObrego´n,37290Leo´n,Gto.,Me´xico;E-mail:Manriquez010@outlook.com B Intelligent Environments 2019 A. Muñoz et al. (Eds.) © 2019 The authors and IOS Press. This article is published online with Open Access by IOS Press and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0). doi:10.3233/AISE190060 326