Positive Artificial Intelligence Meets Affective Walkability

Abstract

Urban design has followed different schools and traditions, among which we highlight the smart cities and the human-centered cities initiatives, which contrast in certain respects and are complementary in others, similar to how traditional psychology and positive psychology are contrasting and complementary, and to how artificial intelligence has followed contrasting and complementary development pathways along automation of human tasks and augmentation of human capabilities. In this chapter we explore these traditions to establish the concept of positively intelligent neighborhoods, as a convergence of intelligent sensing and positive technologies to design human-centered neighborhoods based on the notion of affective walkability with the support of positively intelligent design agents.