Emolace
A wearable accessory by Yiyi Shao, Jad Rabbaa, Quinn Rockliff
for DIGF6037,
Creation and Computation,
Digital Futures, OCAD University.
Ever wonder what other people are feeling right now?
Emolace is a fashion accessory reading emotional tweets from all over the world, it changes colours depending on different hashtags used. By tracking the sharing of the hashtags: #happy #sad #ew #scared and #mad, Emolace tells you the current emotion of the ever-updating internet.
The speed of blinking is based on the strength of WiFi signal, which will tell you how well as an individual you connect to the cyber world.
Project Background - Emotions Of Internet
"Internet created a cyber world for people to live a second life, which also created a space for people to express their emotions and feelings, especially through social media. If we see the internet as a huge container, it is gathering every users’ emotions in every second. If you ever wondered how everyone in this world is feeling right now, this project will give you the answer. It reads particular emotional hashtags from twitter. When most people tweet about sad, it will draw random blue eclipse on the website canvas and light up a cloudy led which presents a teardrop coming from the “internet container”. When most people tweet about happy, it will draw pink rectangle instead and turn off the led. In this project, I considered the interactions and relationships not only between human and computers but also between the physical world and cyber world. Every user is participating in the interactions and be part of this project. It also completes the transformation of emotions from physical human feeling to the digital form of a hashtag and comes back as a whole in the physical form of a teardrop and visualization on the website. This world is bitter-sweet, there must be some points in your life that in a really bad mood, but so does everyone else! Hope next second you will be happy again. "
Yiyi
Nov 12th, 2017
Second Iteration - Wearables
