In our exploration of emotions through colours, styles, movements, and textures, we uncovered our diverse personalities within the project.

Colour emerged as vibrant expressions of unhappiness or peaceful thoughts, each shade telling of positive or negative emotions. Each of us created our own color palette to resemble our different emotions. Rather than putting one color to sum up our emotion, we used multiple colors, blending them together to present how emotions are complex.

Style became a canvas for self-expression, revealing unique points of our identities. Each of us has distinct style to show our different characteristics. Movement allowed us to express both joy and sorrow in a dynamic manner. Textures, smooth or rough, shows the level of exponents of our individual emotions.

Our visuals are measured by the intensity of our emotion. Some days we may felt more emotions than other days. Having "more heart" or "less heart" is inspired from the framework of our heart shape resembling our emotions. Individuals that have more heart are likely to experience joy and tranquility throughout their day, whereas those with less heart are overwhelmed with range of emotions. Commonly, those who experience more emotions tend to be filled with deeper and personal thoughts throughout the day, showing more reflections rather than random.

Data to Diagrams to Visuals The pie charts below resembles the sum of our emotions within the span of 5 days. We transformed our data into pie charts to show how much emotions we input within each day. We used our colour palette to add more depths and highlight the different emotions of each day. Our pie charts are then used as references to be input to our generative visuals.

Vionetta

I would say that my emotions during the 5 days were more unstable compared to my teammates'. As an individual, I am quite an introvert, but I enjoyed spending most of my time with my close ones. I'm also a moody person; Hence, it is not surpising for me that my data shows high unstability. Within the span of 5 days, I was overwhelmed with various emotions, showing both rage in anger and happiness.

Aside from rants, most of my thoughts during the days were filled with wishes and regrets. From the data collections, I realized that I tend to make decisions based on my current emotions. When I am filled with positive energies, I tend to write less; On the other hand, I express more thoughts when feeling down.

Phoebe

I noticed that my emotions during this project were particularly vivid, likely due to my generally positive and optimistic outlook. As a result, positive emotions seemed to dominate my experiences more than negative ones. Throughout the five days of engaging in this project, I encountered a broad spectrum of emotions, primarily leaning towards positivity but also including moments of neutrality.

What became evident to me through this exploration was that I have a tendency not to dwell on negative emotions. I found that I don't allow pessimistic thoughts to linger, and as a consequence, they don't significantly impact my overall well-being. This self-discovery highlighted my resilience and ability to maintain a positive mindset, even in the face of varied emotional experiences.

Tiara

Realising my tendency to overthink, I've noticed a recurring pattern of heightened stress during school weeks. Reflecting on the past five days, I couldn't ignore the prevalence of negative emotions, undoubtedly linked to the pressure and demands of academic responsibilities. It's a familiar cycle—stress leading to negative thoughts and vice versa. Simple as it may seem, acknowledging this connection is the first step.

Now, I'm inclined to explore straightforward strategies to manage stress and foster a more balanced mindset. Simplifying my approach to challenges might just be the key to breaking this cycle and embracing a more positive outlook.

Feedback

In response to the feedback provided by the lecturers on our project presentation, we have identified some key areas for improvement.

They advised us to showcase more insights into our project's process, documenting each stage comprehensively from data to visuals. We had to revise and add more data visualizations, such as diagrams and pie charts to depict how we use our data and input it into the system to create the visuals. Furthermore, they also suggested incorporating more holograms for each of our emotions. Due to the material availability, we couldn’t present more holograms in real life. Instead, we tried to edit them to look like they were side-by-side together.

Our achievement lies in the successful creation of the hologram, which, despite its simplicity, we managed to effectively convey a range of emotions interactively. We believe that we had put our whole efforts in creating these visuals. Not only that they are visually pleasing, but we managed to create a cohesive appearance with the many visuals we created individually. From this process, we have also mastered the basic tools of using the program, TouchDesigner.

With the mobility of the code, we were able to generate multiple distinct visuals representing our different emotions and personalities by just using one system. We believe that it was through our motivation to learn various tutorials that we could achieve this outcome. Through the potential of our generative visuals, we managed to go beyond conventional communication methods, expressing our emotions in ways that words often fall short.