This corset is designed to be a visual representation of the key emotional contexts of
a person's conversations throughout the day. I handsewed the corset and soldered all connections. As you or someone around you speaks, the
speech is recorded and sent to a sentiment analyzer from hugging face to determine the
emotion in the speech snippet. This sentiment analyzer had over 50 recognizable emotions,
which I mapped down to 7, shown below. The lights are then assigned to a ratio of the recognized
emotions, which are evenly dispersed throughout the garment. For example, if 'joy'(yellow)
was recognized twice and 'anger'(red) was recognized once, then 66% of the lights would be
yellow and 33% would be red. Neutral statements are ignored. The key is as follows:
Joy: Golden
Anger: Red
Sadness: DeepSkyBlue
Love: Hot Pink
Fun: Green
Unease: DarkOliveGreen
Reflection: Violet
Sewing the corset:
Adding boning! (I used zip ties)
I had to solder each light strip together. There were 7 dual ended light strips with 3 connections (power, data line, ground). So it was a lot of effort! After soldering each connection, I secured it with heat shrink.
The final product! Unfortunately my grommeting tool didn't make it to the door in time to make this fully wearable, but I'll add that in later!
