Assessing the association between overcrowding and human physiological stress response in different urban contexts: a case study in Salzburg, Austria.

ABSTRACT: Overcrowding in densely populated urban areas is increasingly becoming an issue for mental health disorders. Yet, only few studies have examined the association between overcrowding in cities and physiological stress responses. Thus, this study employed wearable sensors (a wearable camera, an Empatica E4 wristband and a smartphone-based GPS) to assess the association between overcrowding and human physiological stress response in four types of urban contexts (green space, transit space, commercial space, and blue space). A case study with 26 participants was conducted in Salzburg, Austria. We used Mask R-CNN to detect elements related to overcrowding such as human crowds, sitting facilities, vehicles and bikes from first-person video data collected by wearable cameras, and calculated a cha

SUBMITTER: Zhang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10286433 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature