Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Cool or a bit creepy? A giant smiley to measure the mood of passersby

Below is a video of the Fühlometer (Feel-o-meter) which is an interactive art installation that shows the mood of a city by displaying it in the form of a monumental Smiley. The system reads emotions out of random people's faces. The faces are analyzed by sophisticated software (contributed by the Fraunhofer Institut). The obtained mood data are then stored on a server and processed by the smiley to visualize the emotions in real-time.

Here it is in action in Lindau, Germany:

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Permalink Reply by Chris Setz on December 23, 2011 at 10:44

Wonderful, Liz - thanks! Made me smile.

Were it linked to something, that might enhance.

For example, the amount of money Haringey Council can get from the Government to spend on us - were that linked with the amount of smiles people generate, should we get more money for being happy or sad?