Tuesday, 22 November 2011

Giant Smiley Feel-o-Meter Reflects the Mood of the City

Giant Smiley Feel-o-Meter Reflects the Mood of the City

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Fuehlometer (Feel-o-meter) by Richard Wilhelmer, Julius von Bismarck, and Benjamin Maus is a light installation consisting of a giant smiley face that reflects the average mood of the people living in the city.

An earlier version of this work originally used a more standard light screen installation instead of kinetically moving the different parts of the smiley face. The average emotional value is calculated through the computational analysis of the faces of people passing a camera located in a specific part of the city,

Watch the movie below.

See also Mood-Reading Billboard: Jell-O's 'Pudding Face' Ad In New York City.

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