Link: http://lauren-mccarthy.com/The-Changing-Room

This project is named The Changing Room, which is a smart home controlling your feelings and cares your emotions. The Changing Room is intended to make everyone to feel the emotion as intensely as possible. As you enter the main space, you will be asked the following question, “Do you want to feel?”, and you can select the emotion that you want to experience. The selected emotion will be evoked in the second floor through a series of positions and contortions of your body. After this, you will be picking a sound or voice, and instructed to adapt yourself to “share your feelings”, “calm down”, or “express more joy” according to the selected sound. I found this project interesting because, in this custom software installation, participants are able to feel different kind of emotion, such as fear or confusion, and leave with a sense of curiosity. Because of the technology, performance or exhibition can be more computational, and participants can enjoy more interaction and involvement with the environment.