One day, someone sent an e-mail message: "Hey, I think you might be our neighbor!" Vance did not smile at the monitor or feel an agreeable "small-world glow".
She got up, she walked down the stairs, and as the bus continued north the young man turned dejectedly towards the window – until the woman climbed the stairs again, stared at him from just underneath the CCTV monitor, smiled, and reclaimed her seat.
Tiny faces, almost life-sized on the TV monitor, smiling, beautiful, gone.
The observational study paired strangers getting to know one another and monitored their reactions to any smile that was exchanged -- both genuine and polite.
With the Smile Detection mode on, the camera will start monitoring faces wherever it's aimed at.
Mood Meter is an interactive installation that encourages, recognizes, and monitors the smiles of a community, providing an indicator of emotional responses to certain events.
Hundreds of miles away, her face popped up on her therapist's computer monitor; he smiled back on her phone's screen.
"I don't want to be a monitor, but if you ask with a smile, it's usually fine.
We'd see antelopes, big savannah monitors and hyenas," he says, drawing a smile from the youngest members of his audience, who have never seen such creatures.
Stayed up all night election evening to monitor results and faced the morning with a smile, knowing our national nightmare was almost over.
