13

Jan

Emo Cities

Aleph of Emotions is an experimental art project by Mithru Vigneshwara at LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore.

“The camera-like interface allows users to point along a particular direction, focus to a place along that direction, and click to view a visualization of emotions in that place. The intention is to explore and find patterns in human emotions with relation to space and time.

The Aleph, according to the author, Jorge Luis Borges, is a point in the Universe where all other points exist. Therefore, anyone looking at the Aleph could see everything in the Universe at once. In this project, I use the Aleph as a metaphor for an archive; Aleph of Emotions refers to an archive of emotions. This archive is produced by data collected from Twitter. Data is collected based on keywords that define certain emotions. The results are finally presented with an interactive object.”

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03

Jun

FoodMood.in

FoodMood was presented at When the City Meets the Citizen workshop in Dublin on 4 June as part of the 6TH International AAAI Conference On Weblogs and Social Media. The related academic paper, published by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, is available for download here.

Food Mood is an interactive data visualization and sentiment analysis tool using Twitter as a primary data source. It is a collaborative project between Affect Lab and the brilliant people at AI Applied and Jana + Koos.

Using natural language processing techniques, English-language tweets are collected and analyzed for sentiment, location and foodstuff. We capture, in real time, the foods that people are tweeting about and how they feel about them.

We then add a layer of public data about countries’ obesity and wealth to better understand the global food landscape.

Find the beta site at www.foodmood.in.

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22

Feb

Playful City Experiments

I recently met Cambridge social computing researcher Daniele Quercia at a 30-minute lunch time talk at University College London. He presented fascinating work that uses Twitter data to compare sentiment between neighbourhoods in London. More on that in another post hopefully. But, it started me thinking again about cities and emotion – one of the strongest research threads of Affect Lab. It reminded me of these greats projects:

Public Face II, by artists Richard Wilhelmer, Julius von Bismarck and Benjamin Maus. It uses facial recognition software to measure the mood of residents in Lindau, Germany. The 8-metre high smiley – installed on a lighthouse and made of steel and neon tubes – changes shape as the mood does…

Fuhlometer

Fuhlometer

How Do You Feel Helsinki? a project conducted by IBM and initiated by the city of Helsinki using user-inputted data to visualize the emotions of city dwellers.
How do you feel Helsinki?

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