Emotional Compass
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An emotional compass.
A public visualization of the emotions expressed in the city through the real-time participation of its citizens using major social networks drives a smartphone application, allowing for a novel way to experience the city.
The compass captures city dwellers' expressions on social networks to understand their emotions and the places they have been expressed in. The emotions are used to allow the user to navigate the city using a geography which is not made by streets, buildings and landmarks, and is constructed by people's emotions, as they appear in the city.
How is an emotional city experienced? Where are specific emotions expressed? Is there a such thing as an emotional landmark, a place in which a certain emotion is expressed with particular strength/recurrence by the different communities of the city?
In which direction do I have to go to find the places in which people have experienced joy, anger, boredom, surprise.
An real-time, emergent, emotional, human geography of cities.
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Glenn Zucman is discussing.
Glenn Zucman 12:35 pm on July 10, 2014 Permalink
This is a really interesting idea. Some years back I worked with art students at a high school in Irvine, CA. I had them draw cognitive maps of their campus and other projective drawings. Each was so compelling and so very different.
One student drew, in excruciating detail, every sink and table in the art building, the other nearby arts buildings in lesser detail, and the entire rest of the campus was simply a circle labeled all the rest.
Maps like these will never be as useful as a Google Map for getting from Point A to Point B. But Google Maps are heartless. They might take you to someone or something you love, but the route itself is banal.
Emotional Compass, Social Wayfinding, Cognitive Maps, and my new term for today, Ephemeral Wayfinding are all about making not better, but more meaningful and more deeply immersive journeys. Journeys that are, perhaps, more about the road than the destination.