EMOTION TRACER
Exploratorium, San Francisco

Funding: $1.75M NSF award
User research: summative  

In this exhibit I wanted to help visitors understand not only that there’s a deep interconnection between our thoughts and physiology, but how social interactions measurably stimulate our bodies and minds. A computer screen displays one visitor's changing physiological arousal as another visitor asks emotionally provocative questions. Watch to video to see easy it can be to evoke clear measurable response in a friend with a few words.