Mapping

Analysis

As we observed, the path between Dodge Hall and Mass Ave. seems to be the most moody part of the circle. Moreover, the majority of happy pedestrians had accompanies and were talking. We decided to map the traffic and the emotions of the traffic. First, we want our project to catch people's attention. Krentzman Quadrangle is big, and the flow of people was uneven in different parts of it. We want to set our project to the most prominent part. Second, since our project is associated with emotions, we also want to record the emotions of the passers-by. Therefore, we also made a second map.

We are telling the stories of people who are passing through the Krentzman Quadrangle. However, what we were really doing was just to conjecture their stories from the surface, especially people with no expressions. A neutral expression often doesn't mean the person feels nothing, but most of the time, they are hiding these emotions from being revealed. When we see a student walking by with a smile on their face, we are probably right that they have a happy story. However, we can't really tell the story of a student who expressed nothing on their face. That's what our project was supposed to do: to let the students tell their true stories despite the emotionless disguise.

Some opportunities that our map revealed were that there was a huge influx of people on the path connecting Snell to Mass Ave. We could potentially attract a lot of people to interact if we set our stuff there.