The MIT Mood Meter
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The MIT Mood Meter
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#2Theres another one in the stata center. Seeing it alone made me smile :)
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#3Seems like there is a missing component: Frowning. When the lowest mood available is "calm," it feel like it's missing half the picture...
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#4I assumed that this was going to be gathered from twitter and facebook statuses, then shown as an overall average of the current mood.
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#5I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend to be one of those deaf-mutes
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#6Seems like there is a missing component: Frowning. When the lowest mood available is "calm," it feel like it's missing half the picture...
That's exactly what I thought. I stood there for half a minute looking incredibly silly trying to make it frown. My guess would be that frowns are more subtle and harder to detect.
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#7Cute idea... but really this isn't measuring MIT's mood, but it's sociability. When people are alone, they tend to have a neutral expression regardless of their mood. This is also true in public but non-social situations like sitting on a bus or subway. Conversely, in North American culture anyway (and probably others, especially many European cultures), people tend to smile when they're talking with one another -- again, regardless of mood.