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Project overview
The complete EMO City approach
Understand how
cities feel.
Bringing human experience into the way we understand, design and improve urban spaces.
EMO City brings together human responses, environmental analysis and digital tools to understand how urban spaces are experienced. Our goal is to make that experience a practical part of planning and design, helping teams identify what matters and where change can make a difference.
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A closer look
The project,
at a glance.
Explore our approach and the two tools behind EMO City.
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EMO Manager
From human response to insight
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EMO Scape
From environment to design evidence
Products
Two tools. One connected approach.
Understand the experience.
Explain the environment. Inform the next step.
Human experience
EMO Manager
A structured workspace for understanding how people respond to a place.
Organize the evidence
Bring physiology, eye tracking, questionnaires and interviews into one participant-centered workflow.
Connect each moment
Align recordings and annotate interviews so responses can be understood alongside the experience.
Understand comfort
Reconstruct comfort over time and export structured results for further analysis and comparison.
Core outputs Aligned data · Annotated responses · Comfort curves
Urban environment
EMO Scape
An analysis framework connecting the character of a place with human experience.
Read the environment
Describe streets through their visual elements, spatial conditions and soundscape.
Explore relationships
Examine how environmental features relate to people's responses and identify patterns that matter.
Inform design decisions
Identify low-comfort segments and translate findings into evidence cards and planning priorities.
Core outputs Environmental features · Experience relationships · Design evidence
Our principle
Better urban renewal begins with
how people experience a place.
Making that experience visible, understandable and actionable.
Looking ahead
Toward more human cities.
Our next steps connect deeper understanding with wider, practical use.
More places. More perspectives.
Extend the approach across urban settings and diverse communities, supporting more inclusive planning.
Clearer paths to action.
Develop easier reporting and interpretation tools, helping teams turn complex evidence into practical design priorities.
A connected community.
Build adaptable workflows and international partnerships to support shared learning across cities.
Our team
Different disciplines. A shared purpose.
Connecting urban planning, psychology, geographic information and software development.
Lu Liu
Psychology · Experimental design
Ludong University
Mengquan Wu
Urban planning · Practice
Ludong University
Peiyun Lei
Fieldwork · Data curation
Ludong University
Guoqing Li
Technical operations · Spatial data
Ludong UniversityBased at the College of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Ludong University
Work with us
Let's shape better urban experiences.
For researchers, planners, design teams and organizations putting people at the center of urban change.
From a focused technical question to a shared research agenda, we can help you connect methods, software and urban practice.
Research methods
Study design, immersive experiment protocols and the integration of physiological signals, eye tracking, questionnaires and interviews into a coherent evaluation approach.
Software & workflows
Discuss access to EMO Manager and EMO Scape, software demonstrations, setup guidance, data exchange and workflow adaptation to your research context.
Analysis & interpretation
Support for streetscape feature extraction, multimodal data alignment, quality checks and comfort analysis, with clear outputs that connect findings to design questions.
Planning & design
Identify experience priorities, investigate low-comfort environments and develop evidence-informed design directions and approaches to before-and-after evaluation.
Research collaboration
Joint studies, cross-city comparisons, method validation, interdisciplinary publications and collaborative proposals, with scope and data arrangements agreed together.
Training & exchange
Technical discussions, project demonstrations, workshops and knowledge exchange to help research and planning teams understand and apply the approach.
Start a conversation
Tell us what you are working on.
Share your context, objectives and the support you have in mind.
We will explore a suitable way to work together.