ABSTRACT The main goal of this article is to study how people describe emotions related to places and to improve understanding of evocative places, their locations and characteristics as described by the citizens. Evocative places are places that evoke an especially emotional response in terms of images, memories and/or emotions. We aim to contribute to a better understanding of emotions in relation to places. Our study concentrates on Ames, a small university town in the Midwest in North America. The collected 192 locations show two areas with high concentrations of evocative places, specifically the university campus and Ada Hayden Heritage Park. This study opened up challenging research questions related to fuzzy or non-existing boundaries of places, a variety of shapes of places, and questions related to the challenges of modelling emotions as objects or attributes in a geographic information system. We conclude the article with main findings and further research directions.

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探索回味场所及其特征

摘要本文的主要目的是研究人们如何描述与场所有关的情感，并增进人们对唤起场所，其位置和特征的理解，如市民所描述。令人回味的地方是在图像，记忆和/或情感方面引起特别是情感反应的地方。我们的目标是有助于更好地理解与地点有关的情绪。我们的研究重点是北美中西部的一个小型大学城埃姆斯。所收集的192个地点显示了两个令人回味的地方，特别是大学校园和艾达·海登遗产公园。这项研究提出了具有挑战性的研究问题，这些问题涉及地点的模糊或不存在，地点的各种形状，以及与将情感建模为地理信息系统中的对象或属性的挑战有关的问题。我们以主要发现和进一步的研究方向作为本文的结尾。