How do public spaces make you feel?


By AGENCY
  • Living
  • Tuesday, 09 Jan 2024

Community partner Paula Acevedo (left), wearing the eye-tracking glasses with Quinn. They used the equipment at El Paseo Community Garden in Pilsen to analyse whether people of diverse backgrounds feel welcome in a public space. Photo: Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/TNS

Can a public space feel healthy and equitable?

Researchers from DePaul University, Chicago in the United States are looking at the built environment and public spaces hoping to answer that question with the help of high-tech wearable eye-tracking glasses. With a camera in the front of the lenses, the glasses record wherever your head points, tracks eye movement, and records locations and heart rates.

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