MoodChat: Wearable Emotion Communication

Faculty: 
Jim Budd
Students: 
Xiaowei Chen

Sharing emotions is a way to connect people to one another, this project uses a wearable system to recognize, share & connect people via emotions. MoodChat is a wearable system that automatically recognizes human emotion and allows people to share their feelings and emotions through simple interaction. The system includes a wristband and a mobile app.

Lab: 
Faculty: 
Richard Henneman, Carrie Bruce
Students: 
Nearly 100

Students in Georgia Tech's interdisciplinary MS in Human-Computer Interaction program do multiple group class projects, and a capstone individual project. Some projects are presented as part of other labs listed here; others are showcased in the MS-HCI Project Lab.

The two-year program spans four schools: Industrial Design; Interactive Computing; Literature, Media and Communications (Digital Media Program); and Psychology. Approximately 50 new students enroll each fall semester.