EMOTION HERO

Ruben van de Ven

INSTALLATION, ANDROID GAME

What does it mean to feel 48% surprised and 18% joyful? Over recent years, new software has emerged that estimates what people feel based on their facial expressions. Emotion Hero is an Android game that encourages one to investigate how face and feelings are represented by the software. The central question is, what is it we are looking at when we read emotion scores? Which leads one to wonder, what is it we're looking for in these numbers?

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