Experiential Design, Emotions Science, and Empathic Relationships

Designing Emotional Language

What if right now,

1) You were to write down your 8 favorite letters.

2) Then, what if I showed you results from hundreds of other people's feelings on letters: and you saw that many people felt more or less the same as you, about those same letters. And then what if you turned those feelings into movements understood throughout many cultures. Could it then be possible, to create an emotional alphabet?

3) What if you could see a written poem, in dance form?

First our team interviewed hundreds of people asking what specific letters meant to them. Then with professional dancers, we created a choreography based on a collective feeling of each letter of the alphabet. We then made that choreography readable by the, at the time, brand new Kinect motion camera.