This submission follows the research presented at CRBAM 2023 about the role of Urban Green Infrastructure (UGI) in cycling experience, by presenting the research findings. This time, we aim to share methodological findings and seek feedback on developing User eXperience (UX) capturing methods to study human-environment interactions while cycling.
Research objective is to understand comfort components during riding the bicycle. A group of volunteer cyclists were equipped with bike-mounted phone holders and wearable microphones and were asked to video-record their everyday cycling trips while verbalizing their emotions and perceptions through think-aloud protocol in Munich during summer and winter time. Volunteers were asked to be self-aware and try to state any changes in their feelings while riding their bike and the potential cause of it. 13 self-recordings per season were requested. Additionally, a walk-along interview through a route encompassing different street profiles was conducted to explore the role of UGI in more details. All the self-recordings and interviews were geo-tracked using Strava application.
The findings shed light on details of perceptions and feelings that cyclists experience in different street compositions. The authors are looking forward to going beyond the results of the study and initiate a discussion around the possibilities of different methods to capture emotions, their causes and their locations while cycling. We believe this data can reveal enormous number of details that can help planners and decision makers to develop cities that provide better cycling experiences for all users.