3D concept development


Guiding questions:
How to make measure happiness and happiness in the city scale?
Is smile really means happiness?
Camera detection is a kind of privacy invasion?
What's the function of landmarks?
What's the significance of the happiness mapping?
How to make people happy?


Research -- smile & happiness:
According to Adrienne Wood, when we see an express, we would try to mimic the same facial expression spontaneously and thus we would trigger that same emotional state in ourselves.[1]
The smile is contagious.
According to Zajonc's hypothesis, the facial changes involved in smiling have direct effects on certain brain activities associated with happiness.[2]
Theories do not suggest that smile can not make unhappiness go away, which basically states that in a state of emotional neutrality, putting a smile on your face can tip you in the direction of a positive feeling.


Concept 1(the old one) -- City smile mapping:
There are many ways to measure happiness, including Subjective well-being (SWB), Oxford Happiness Questionnaire (OHQ), Electroencephalogram (EEG) and so on. Both are them have to spend quiet a long time to finish. What about using self-report, which would be highly effcient. So I made a voting device prototype for collecting datas.

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Concept 2(the new one) -- A mirror that makes your smile ready:
Expression stimuli is a method which can induce target emotions. Subjects are instructed to control their own facial muscles, making their facial expressions consistent with the reference facial expressions reflecting the target emotions, thereby inducing the target emotions.[3] "You have dressed up and get your smile ready!"

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Reference:
1. Wood, Rychlowska, Korb, & Niedenthal. (2016). Fashioning the Face: Sensorimotor Simulation Contributes to Facial Expression Recognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20(3), 227-240.
2. Zajonc, R. (1985). Emotion and Facial Efference: A Theory Reclaimed. Science, 228(4695), 15-21.
3. Xin, W., Jingna, J., Li, S., et al.: Study on the early metaphase component difference of ERP induced by scene situation and facial expression picture. [J]. Chinese Journal of Bio- medical Engineering 34(3), 257-263 (2015). (in Chinese)