MoMe: a context-sensitive mobile application to research spatial perception and behaviour

Which environmental and spatial parameters in uence the perception of the built environment and its users’ behaviour? In this abstract, the authors present the pro- totype MoMe, a context-sensitive mobile application developed as a research tool to assess spatial perception and behaviour in urban open spaces. The aim of the prototype is to record quantitative and qualitative data by making use of the con- text-awareness of mobile devices. Thanks to the interactive nature of mobile ap- plications, the proposed framework can be used to guide and engage users in a speci c manner with the built environment, which can be choreographed according to research questions in a somewhat exible or even playful way. A conceptual framework for the development and evaluation of the prototype is presented here and is underlined with the results and experiences of a proof of concept setup.