Interactive Emotional Response Display Project
For this project, my partner Darby and I wanted to explore the emotional atmosphere at the College for Creative Studies. We came up with the idea of using colored ping pong balls to represent different feelings, like blue for sadness or yellow for happiness, and built a clear acrylic case to display them. The whole setup was designed to show the changing moods of people in the space in real-time.
We used Arduino technology to track the color of each ball as it dropped into the case and then projected the data onto screens, showing the percentage of different emotions. The project ended up being a fun and engaging way for people to see how the mood around them shifted throughout the day. It was set up in a common area, and classmates, professors, and visitors all seemed to enjoy it.
In the end, it was exciting to see how interactive design can bring something as abstract as emotions to life in such a tangible, creative way.
Materials Used:
Arduino Microprocessor
Adobe After Affects
Digital Progection
Idustrial Design
Acrylic bending
Heat melting
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