By the time we collaborated as a group we did not have much time. Lisa and I chatted about how it would be difficult to represent multiple people through a visual environment without using a screen. She then suggested that we used music as an indicator of mood, with the recently played songs being made available between the users. However, I really questioned the link between music genre and mood, and thought that this could be misinterpreted. Also we could not find a way to further this idea and failed to answer the question of why, why does your friend want to know this information? We tried to use music in a different context as perhaps a way to trigger memories of certain experiences between friends but we could not find an ulterior purpose of great importance and therefore this idea was pretty bland.
After timely consideration, we decided to try and move on and we were all really stuck with these concepts. Eventually I thought that exercise may be a great way to interpret happiness due to the direct release to endorphin release. Also the assumption was made that people generally wont exercise if they are unhappy. Therefore we thought that this could work well as an indicator to friends of mood and also work as an encouragement to get back into excercising as a way of keeping up with your friends progress. This could also encourage a friend to catch up with his/her friend and take them out on a run etc. We left the class with myself deciding to look into endorphin release through exercise and Yoakim looking into technology which can measure whether the person has been exercising eg. pedometer, heart rate monitor. We feel like we are heading in a good direction now and this has a lot of potential.
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