Role: Software Design, Emotion Algorithm development, Creative assistance
With Tina Gonsalves and others

Art installation “Emotional Contagion,” part of artist Tina Gonsalves’s “Chameleon” Project, developed in association with Dr. Hugo Critchley, world-renowned social neuroscientist Dr. Chris Frith of The Wellcome Department of Neuroimaging at The Institute of Neurology (IoN) in London, world leading affective computer scientists Prof Rosalind Picard and Dr Rana Kaliouby of The Affective Computing Group at the Media Lab, Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA..  Shown at ICA London, and the Wellcome Institute, London, and others.

Emotional Contagion is a public, projection-based installation whereby people send text messages via their mobile phones that encourage virtual people to change emotion.  These emotions affect the other virtual persons around them according to algorithms developed in collaboration with Dr. Critchely and Dr. Frith, mirroring how emotions are unconsciously transmitted through crowds of real people.