RESEARCH TOPIC
Infection of Smile
BACKGROUND
"Smiling is infectious, you catch it like the flu. When someone smiled at me today, I started smiling too." by Karen McLendon-Laumann
Smiling is indeed important in our everyday life, both in our personal lives as well as within the workplace. There is the saying "Smile and the whole world smiles with you." Well, sayings like this are actually grounded in fact. When you smile, it does tend to trigger off smiles in others around you. Even in extremely stressful situations, a smile can easily brighten up everybody's mood.
The value of a smile is priceless. It can't be bought, begged or borrowed.
It costs nothing to give, but is the most sincere gift that one might be able to give to another. A smile brings rest to the weary, and is the best antidote for discouragement. It brings sunshine to the sad and hope to the hopeless.
PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION
Nowadays people are facing a lots of stress and unhappy things in life and most of them can't be avoid. Everyday I see my Facebook full of complaint from everyone, complaint about their friends, complaint about their life etc. But what if there are full of happy things, everyone is sharing their happy experience instead of complaining, I think in that way will make everyone more happy. So I think we might need a media/platform/places for us to share our happiness only, such as our smiling photos.
AIM AND OBJECTIVES
- to encourage people to smile more and share their smile to others.
MOTIVATION
Those complaint at facebook always make me think of what happened in this world, is the world really so unhappy? So I am thinking to share happiness to others and gain happiness from others also.
IDEATION AND CONCEPT
The basic idea is to create an online application and platform that let people share their happiness and infect to others. Through the application, people can take pictures of they smiling and it will saved in database and other users can browse through gallery of smile and gain some happiness from there. Beside that, users will be encourage to send their smile to they friend and family to “infect” the smile to them.
Other than that, there is a “flashmob” on cyberspace for this project. After taken the photo of the smile, the users will be encourage to use it as their profile picture of Facebook or other social networking sites, to share their smile and try to influence others to do the same and make the cyberspace full of smiling faces :)
REVIEW, ANALYSIS AND PRECEDENCE STUDIES
A smile is a facial expression formed by flexing the muscles near both ends of the mouth. The smile can also be found around the eyes (See 'Duchenne smile' below). Among humans, it is customarily an expression denoting pleasure, happiness, or amusement, but can also be an involuntary expression of anxiety, in which case it is known as a grimace. Cross-cultural studies have shown that smiling is a means of communicating emotions throughout the world. But there are large difference between different cultures. A smile can be spontaneous or artificial (when people feel obliged to smile). Happiness is most often the motivating cause of a smile. Among animals, the exposure of teeth, which may bear a resemblance to a smile, is often used as a threat or warning display—known as a snarl—or a sign of submission. In chimpanzees, it can also be a sign of fear. The study of smiles is a part of gelotology, psychology, and linguistics, comprising various theories of affect, humor, and laughter.
DESIGN APPROACH
An online platform that having a minimal swiss design style to make the focus point on the smile photos.
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