Send love
and receive a smile
from miles away.
HEARTBOT FOR LURIE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL
Hospital stays for kids many times takes a toll on their connections with classmates, teachers and neighborhood friends. As a way to ease the communication between them, we developed a high fidelity prototype that allows loved ones to send a digital show of affection, regardless of the distance.
My role in this project as a member of the Emerging Tech team was to help ideate, prototype
and art direct.
Agency: Leo Burnett
Client: Lurie Children’s Hospital
Where It All Started
“Emoji Signal” - Can a robot show emotion? We asked Google to check #FACESOFCHICAGO on Instagram and use facial recognition to show us how Chicago is feeling.
This signal used a webscraper to parse multiple image urls from #FACESOFCHICAGO. A NodeJS server was setup on Google Cloud Platform to iterate through each image and send them to the Google Vision API for facial and emotion recognition. The emotion data of the faces was saved to a JSON file. The Arduino would then read the file and display the appropriate emoji translation.
Technology: Arduino, Google Vision, Google Could Platform