We Feel Fine is an interactive

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, artwork, and book created by Jonathan Harris and

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every 10 minutes for expressions of human emotion on

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and then displays the results in several visually-rich dynamic representations.Cook, Garth & Sep Kamva
An Almanac of Internet Emotion
''Scientific American''. January 26, 2010.The Decade's 14 Biggest Design Moments
''Fast Company''. December 28, 2009. Created in 2005 and launched in 2006, We Feel Fine was turned into a book in 2009.Carey, Benedict

''New York Times''. August 3, 2009.Leberecht, Tim

''CNET''. November 25, 2008.Popova, Maria
The Sum of All Emotions
''Wired''. December 2, 2009.

History

Sep Kamvar and Jonathan Harris started We Feel Fine in August 2005 as both a

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project and an online artwork.Weiler, Lance
Interview with Sep Kamvar
''Workbook Project''. December 15, 2009.
''wefeelfine.org''. The site was launched officially on May 8, 2006.We Feel Fine
''MetaFilter''. May 8, 2006.
''wefeelfine.org''. It has toured regularly and been exhibited as an artwork all over the world since its launch.
Jonathan Harris Website.List of Exhibitions
kamvar.og. In 2009, Kamvar and Harris took the findings from the four years since they launched the project and turned them into a book called "We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion".The Book
''wefeelfine.org''.Whelan, Christine

''The Huffington Post''. December 1, 2009.

Website and exhibitions

We Feel Fine is built on top of a data collection engine that scours blog posts every 10 minutes for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" or "I am feeling" and then saves into a

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the sentences in which those phrases and any of the 5,000 pre-identified feelings are found.If You're Happy and You Know it Write a Blog
''Montreal Gazette'' on canada.com. November 30, 2006.
''wefeelfine.org''. The sentences and their attendant feelings are then organized and displayed visually in 6 distinct "movements" called Madness, Murmurs, Montage, Mobs, Metrics, and Mounds.
''wefeelfine.org''. Users navigate between the movements in an applet.Russell, Kate
Webscape
''bbc.co.uk''. October 12, 2007. Kamvar and Harris have made a We Feel Fine

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available with the intent of allowing other artists to create pieces about human emotion.Driver, Erica
Harvesting Data: What is the Mood of the World?
''Smart Data Collective''. August 27, 2011. The site currently collects approximately 15,000 - 20,000 new feelings every day.Interactive Storytelling with Jonathan Harris
''pbs.org''. August 5, 2011. Since its launch in 2006, We Feel Fine has also been exhibited internationally in galleries, museums, and festivals, including:

Book release

Kamvar and Harris took the findings from the four years since We Feel Fine was launched in 2006 and turned them into a book called "We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion".Whelan, Christine
The 10 Most Common Feelings Worldwide
''The Huffington Post''. December 1, 2009. It was released on December 1, 2009 by

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.Nothing More Than Feelings
''Daily Candy''. December 1, 2009.Social Data Mining
''kamvar.org''. While the website presents the most recent feelings mined by the data collection engine, the book does a deeper statistical analysis of the approximately 12 million feelings collected up to the point of publication.Popova, Maria
We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion
''Brain Pickings''. December 3, 2009. Sections of the book are viewable as jpegs on the We Feel Fine website.

Reception

We Feel Fine, in each of its forms, was received well by the public as well as critics, technology writers, and culture commentators. It has been featured in the

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, Wired, NPR, Fast Company, and

BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC Here i going to introduce about the best teacher of my life b BALAJI sir. He is the precious gift that I got befor 2yrs . How has helped and thought all the concept and made my success in the 10th board ex ...

.Frank, Adam
The Cloud of Human Feeling
''NPR''. January 11, 2010. In particular, We Feel Fine was highlighted in a number of "best of" or "Decade in Review" pieces.Kuang, Cliff
Picassos with Pixels: 12 Groundbreaking Pieces of Digital Art
''Fast Company''. December 7, 2009.Walker, Alissa
The Decade in Design
''GOOD Magazine''. December 23, 2009. The site was praised by

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and

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who referred to it as a "mesmerizing visual experiment" and "astonishing and brilliant."Getting Human Feelings on the Web
''Reuters''. April 2, 2007The Approval Matrix
''New York Magazine''. March 18, 2007. From a design and technology perspective, the commentary centered around We Feel Fine as one of the defining examples of the potential for internet-based art and data visualization. In 2010, NPR, in its "Cosmos and Culture" feature stated that We Feel Fine "takes the cloud of feeling humans have always unconsciously moved through and makes it explicit, dynamic and global."

References

External links

We Feel Fine
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Sep Kamvar Official Website
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