A quick hack to test a workshop concept - mood measurement through LAN chat, visible on a public website. Applescripts sent and received chat messages, posting the reply to a Ruby web-app which parsed the response into the appropriate emoticon.

Ivor Williams' words:
Fabrica Mood was a short experiment as part of the Designing for Health workshop held at Fabrica, completed over the course of a day.
The app worked through an existing system at Fabrica: the iChat messaging system installed in every Mac
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By using a system already in place – used by researchers for talking to each other internally across the institution – and simply asking how everyone felt that day – happy, normal or sad, via emoticons – Fabrica Mood created the conditions to instantly chart the mood of the entire institution, and collate them into a graphical representation.
https://beinganddying.com/post/72091348382/designing-for-health-fabrica-mood

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