Jan 30, 2017

Mood monitor

Although the monitor helped him become more aware of his surroundings, he said: "What's interesting is that for about half my walk across cities I'm not focused and I'm not actually in tune with my emotions." His trip across Cardiff started well, with low levels of stress as he began his walk in woodland, although he came across the more familiar sight of a pile of rubbish. Out of all the cities he visited, Swansea was one of his favourites to walk through as he described it as "Surprisingly green with a ribbon of woodland". His walk, which began in June last year with a walk across St David's in Wales, ended in December in Birmingham. Having completed his trips, he said: "If lots of people were wearing these monitors it could inform how we build cities to make them less stressful and more interesting to walk."

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