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April 5, 2008

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Happiness logger. A scenario where the application logs your happiness level - personal trait. Compare this to the previous happiness levels and maybe get the distribution of all and place your level for that day.

  • Happiness Recording Device

Potential goals&messages

Create awareness around the term happiness, create collective act that flourish our happy senses. Messsage is, collective actions could be used to make us more happy. This could be extended through giving people options to feedback their happiness levels. Through this creative experience one might expect numereous interaction with the piece. This interaction should be very simple one.Intentional.

Create this collective happiness machine and feedback to users, give cues about how happy we’re or not.

  • Expectation of changing behaviours or how this machine effects users happiness level?
  • How do you understand if a person is happy? Colors? Personal answers. It’s not going to be scientific research, so it’s kind of caricaturized in that sense. ( I can push this effect further.) So a machine with left and right hand placeholders and a screen eventually.
  • Potential display elements; total people voted, happy count, not happy count, color count, color display, machine’s happiness level ( more interaction more happiness)
  • Can someone’s happiness level flourish ours?
  • Registering system where you can log your happiness stats.

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