Smiles Per Hour
Spring 2017
Physical Installation
Smiles Per Hour is a happiness experiment, where my team and I set up kiosks around RIT's campus for a month and collected students happiness levels. We then displayed our data with a physical interactive installation at RIT's big event Imagine RIT. This project was my big final capstone team project for New Media Design at RIT. The team consisted of 2 developers: Dan Martin and Ben Cheng, and 4 designers: Kat De La Fuente, Casey Gilbert, Tim Torres, and me Meshach Galley.
We designed kiosks with five buttons with a range of faces from unhappy to really happy, and set them around 3 locations on RIT's campus. For the installation at Imagine, we built a servo controlled line graph made up of floating orbs. Users can go up to a touchscreen in front of the display and look at the timeline we collected from the happiness kiosks, the user can zoom in and out of the timeline, and pick which location they want to view as well.
