I was introduced to a site, See What You Feel, by Catherine Chanse, a student at California State University, East Bay Multimedia Graduate Program. When describing their project, she offered:

See What You Feel, is focused on exploring the visual patterns that emerge when people of diverse backgrounds (in regards to country of origin, ethnicity, age, gender) photograph emotions.

We believe that See What You Feel will prove to be an innovative project that will substantially contribute to our understanding of the visual patterns that intersect and diverge cross cultures. The project draws upon the psychoevolutionary emotion work of noted psychologist Robert Plutchik…

When looking at the website and at the project, it reminds me of Microsoft’s Photosynth project and a presentation I watched by Luis von Ahn on indexing and labelling images, which is something I relayed to Catherine. It seems like an interesting project, and I imagine that it will be quite successful.

When doing studies abroad myself, one of the topics that was introduced was a comparison of students from across the world and the common theme that resonates within that group: they are all striving for (knowledge and wisdom, of course, but more importantly) success. I have no doubt that emotions would be another common theme that spans religion, age, gender, and ethnicity. Either way, definitely worth taking a gander at.

NOTE: To ensure the clarity of the post, this is a team project being done by Laura Copenhave, Jerry Yin, and Catherine Chanse. The concept has been and is being developed by the group, but the design, which I found to be excellent, and backend development was the hard work of Laura and Jerry. 

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