2025 Participants
The Effects of Victimization on Female Mobility Patterns
Presenter: Indigo Rosenberg
Faculty advisor: Tony Sparks
The fear of victimization shapes the way women and transgender individuals navigate public spaces. From a young age, women are conditioned to remain vigilant in public, altering their behaviors in response to the risk of victimization. Many women and transgender individuals experience forms of victimization in public spaces, including verbal, nonverbal, and physical victimization. These safety risks raise questions about mobility: How does the fear of victimization influence the mobility patterns of female and transgender individuals? This study investigates the relationship between safety perceptions and mobility patterns in San Francisco, analyzing the demographics of victims, self-protection strategies, and where in San Francisco these experiences occur.
The fear of victimization on public transportation is hypothesized to lead to altered mobility patterns among female and transgender individuals. The research takes a multi-method approach, combining survey participation, 20 open-ended interviews with young adult female and transgender participants, and data visualization using GIS and SPSS. GIS will overlay locational data, collected from surveys and interviews, with violent crime statistics, creating a map of high-risk zones in San Francisco. Qualitative data from surveys and interviews will be coded into categories and visualized using bar graphs created with statistical analysis in SPSS. Preliminary findings suggest that some individuals may alter their travel patterns due to victimizations, while others, constrained by necessity, resort to methods of self-protection.
This study analyzes the mobility patterns of women to identify gaps in safety infrastructure and public policy, aiming to pinpoint these gaps to alleviate the burden of self-protection from individuals at risk.
SFSU Campus Open Space
Presenter: Seleste Richardson
Faculty advisor: Tony Sparks
The open space of a college campus is the foundation for all that occurs within a university. This paper examined student opinions on the quality of San Francisco State University’s (SFSU) open space and whether campus space encourages positive student interaction. Student data and opinions were gathered with a survey via the platform ArcGIS Survey123. Survey data showed students felt averagely about SFSUs campus space and highlighted the non-holistic usage of their most favored campus locations, The Quad and Malcolm X Plaza. These key findings were then used to identify ways in which San Francisco State University can break down barriers to campus space usage and design with a more inclusive campus planning process.