We feel fine crawls through thousands of blogs extracting human emotions. You will see actual feelings of people presented in a charming way but also demographically structured. Basically it searches for the terms “I feel” and  “I am feeling”. The extracted feelings are visualized with lots of colorful dots whirring around the screen. At first glance it looks a bit chaotic but the particles have a self organizing behavior. Color, size, shape, opacity or movement are defined by the kind of emotion. Besides information on the gender, age or location of the emotion’s author, an image, if available, is combined with the feeling. These “Postcards” can be sent or archived. Check the Gallery or try the real time results in the application itself. If an image is attached to a feeling the particle is a rectangle; all others are circles.

The project was inspired by the installation “Listening Post“.

What if we would use this technology to better understand the emotions, the relations and the lives of our audiences? Brands could be smarter, fan clubs could be more interactive and great conversations could be initiated.

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions please email Erik Scholz.