I prefer the term emotional mapping as what you are doing is mapping the individuals emotional connection with a specific place. I think perception mapping is something different as perceptions do not necessary have a specific and an individual connection (or emotional) tie with an area. Emotional mapping in my mind goes deeper as it reflects "hands on experience" as opposed to perceived experience ("not necessary a hands on experience") in perception mapping.  This however a very interesting question which I think needs deeper thought - thus I will probably join the debate again in a few days when I have time to reflect.  

May I refer you to our former PhD Student Dr. Eva Hauthal . She is an expert on your issue and has more time than I ...

Cheers,

Manfred.

I am thinking... I would regard what you are doing as a form of emotional mapping... but as you are not actually representing the emotions then semantically it is closer to 'hedonic mapping'. I will continue thinking...

Thank you all so far for interesting discussion.

To prof. Buchroithner - I know Eva's work, I have see her presentation at ICC in Dresden - she uses term emotions, but in her case, it is right term, as she is extracting information from social networks - emotions assigned to photos on Flickr. Basically in the past ten years several projects have dealt with georeferenced emotions and the methods used to gather emotional data can be divided into three groups: (1) biometric measurements (Nold 2009; Bergner, Zeile, and Papastefanou 2011), (2) extraction from user generated content such as Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, etc. (Bollen, Mao, and Zeng 2011; Mislove et al. 2010; Biever 2010), and (3) surveys (Mody, Willis, and Kerstein 2009; Huang et al. 2014; MacKerron and Mourato 2010). 

Griffin and Mcquoid (2012) distinguished three categories while talking about maps and emotions. These categories are (1) maps of emotions, (2) using maps to collect emotional data, and (3) emotions while using maps. My tool is a combination of the first two categories. Maps were used to collect the emotional information, and also to visualise the emotional data.

To Melanie - I prefer emotional mapping term too, but sometimes it is not only emotions I map - sometimes I ask people where do they think the environment is deprived, where do they prefer shopping, or where it is noisy - none of these are in fact emotions...

To Kate - I am really curious about your answer. You are an expert in kind of ephemeral mapping too - emotions, as well as smell are not tangible and are hard to map and/or position on the map. They are also highly subjective, so I am sure, you had this discussion with yourself before...we can continue over a glass of wine in May at Malta :-)

To everybody else - I am looking forward to hear more ideas and arguments, hopefully from some critical geographers here, neocartographers as well as behaviour geographers or psychogeographers. 

Thank you all so far!

Hi Jirka :-)

I was thinking about your question while heading to the office and although you don't measure/map the primary reaction/emotion of people to the place but rather people's resulting remembrance of the emotion/feeling or even transferred experience (urban rumours, etc.), I still think that emotional mapping is the right term for what you are doing.  I agree with Kate that hedonic mapping might be quite close but I perceive the term hedonic as connected more with pleasure than other feelings.

Other similar terms coming to mind might be preference mapping, perceptual mapping, or mapping of perspectives, maps of feelings/experiences, sensing maps.

But I feel that something is 'lost in the translation' in all terms other than emotional mapping.

Luk

Interesting debate - on the way to work term "responsive mapping" as a possible option, but like Luk says something is lost in the translation. For me "emotional mapping" is still the correct term.

Melanie

Lukas sent me an interesting paper from Chris Perkins (2009), which helped me to decide, that emotional mapping is the term, I am going to use. In his paper Chris says: "...emotional maps chart human feelings onto a cartographical landscape..." and "...allows users to devise and customize their own emotional landscape, choosing what kinds of thoughts or experiences, feelings or passions, to map..."

Hence, emotional maps are not only about emotions, but also about experiences and maybe even perceptions of the space. 

thank you all for interesting discussion, if you are interested more about emotional maps and my research, please wait - our first paper about that topic was just accepted for publication, so I will share it here soon. 

http://camra.culturemap.org.au/sites/all/files/Performative_encyclopaedia.pdf

I recommend "sentiment mapping" that is used in opinion mining technics. The word mapping refers to the visualisation technique, that can be 

1. Mapping (assigning occurrences) to categories present in a graph 

2. Mapping to location references  (chart/map).

I believe you are dealing with the second :-).

I agree with Katalin also on the base of the respective meaning of "emotion", on one hand, and "feeling" and more appropriately "sentiment", on the other, that, at least in psicology as much as in counseling domains, can be found, even if in different declensions.

Indeed, emotion as known represents more correctly an individual perception of and an intimate response to an external stimulous in a specific moment (e-movere), and in this sense a "description"/mapping of "emotion" made a posteriori could be better observed and analysed as the following elaboration of that stimulous that gives birth to feeling, sentiment, gestalt, ..., in other terms to individual experience > knowledge > awareness, where possible...

So, a term as sentiment mapping or experience mapping could better fit this kind of research in scope and methodology, sharing, I guess, the sense of Lukas' above expression "remembrance of the emotion/feeling or even transferred experience".

Regards

Dear Andrea, thank you your idea, sentiment mapping sounds interesting as well...experience mapping may fit in some cases - such as mapping favourite biking routes - it would be most probably based on personal experience with the place.

Well, two years and several "emotional mappings" later I am coming to realisation, that what we do, can also be called "Sketch Mapping" as presented in paper by Eric Boschmann and Emily Cubbon (Article Sketch Maps and Qualitative GIS: Using Cartographies of Indi...

This is an interesting discussion. Sketch mapping and emotional mapping (positive and negative) are also related to sense of place. I am interested in how this can be applied in different contexts.

Anna, we are working with sense of place (perceptions, safety) for past 4 years, let me know, if you want to see some of our research or the app we have developed for data collection. Cheers Jirka

Hi Jiri, have you solved this question? I am really interested, because I am currently writing about the emotions that can be stirred by maps in (geo)activism. That is, how maps can be used to mobilise people. I was thinking that you can either represent emotions/sentiments cartographically (emotional cartography/mapping) or instigate emotions via maps (cartographic emotions?). Maybe Griffin and McQuoid’s category of “emotions while using maps” is more adequate to refer to what I am trying to do as some maps in geoactivism are made in quasi-real-time while people mobilise, although not quite the same. I am also interested in the qualities of geoactivist maps, since some of them are extremely ephemeral, as scent and sentiments. A crisis map typically lasts as long as the crisis at hand or the cartographers’ enthusiasm (see https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10708-018-9853-8). Any suggestions about references, terms and other ideas are welcome. Miren

Dear Miren,

thanks for your question. Well, I am still using the term emotional mapping, although more and more I am inclining to participatory mapping, where some of the questions are related to space perceptions, but some of them can be quite participatory planning like - where would you prefer new playground, etc.

I think Amy´s (Griffin) categories are still very valid, although, I am not sure, if what you are doing are emotions while using maps as she meant it...would recommend to ask her directly.

A crisis mapping for me is a participatory crowdsourcing action - sure, there are emotions linked, but not sure, if they are related to the map, or the event, that is mapped...

I think what I am doing is a combination of what you suggested - I am using maps to collect data about emotions, but then I am using the same maps to visualise it.

Jirka

BTW: I have read your paper, quite a nice piece! If you think we could somehow combine our interest in common paper, let me know, I am always open for collaboration.

I am definitely contacting Amy Griffin, who I am quoting in my cartographic emotions article. Even if we don’t refer to the same thing, I find her categories could be applicable.

I think there are many emotions around a crisis map (not necessarily mapped). This comes from another article I am publishing soon at http://krisis.eu/ “Data activism in Light of the Public Sphere”:

In the case of crisis mapping, actors include deployers, reporting victims and humanitarian workers. These three communities are fundamental. Useful crisis mapping cannot occur without credible deployers, eager reporting witnesses (reporters) and collaborating humanitarian workers. The challenge in crowdsourcing data does not come from its technical sophistication, but from the convening power of the project. For instance, hundreds of Ushahidi deployments have failed due to the absence of people submitting reports from the ground, transforming maps into ‘dead maps’ (Vota 2012). Likewise, the failure of some Ushahidi deployments to engage humanitarian forces on the ground has led to hiccups as well (Keim 2012).

Without these communities’ enthusiasm the map ceases to exist. Mapmaking also has consequences for the mappers. I am finishing a differnt article on the consequences for mappers (and other activists) of “playing with data”, together with coauthor Stefania Milan (stay tuned!). What I want to explore now is how these maps extend their allure beyond the mapmakers.

About participatory mapping, as you know better than I, there is “critical cartography,” “grassroots mapping,” “community mapping,” “volunteered geographic information,” “counter-mapping” and “radical cartography,” among others. I think that all of them mean different things. The good thing is that this is fertile territory for exploration.

I also think our interests have lots of connections. I am currently looking at what you have published. Likewise, think of me if you see the opportunity for collaboration.

Well, I guess I will end this question with stating, that so far, I have not found any better term, than Emotional Mapping for what I do - I have summarised our 4 years of experimenting with the methodology in paper in Cartographic Perspectives - please let me know, what do you think!

Kind Jiri,

may be "Sentimapping" a more suitable neologism for Your theoretical and practical purposes ? At least, just to respect the difference between "emotion" and "sentiment", given that in a map, usually, we try to represent something that is closer to a sentiment towards a place, an object, ecc., much more than to a unique emotion...

Just an idea.

Best Regards