Map of Emotion

What would a map of emotion look like?

Making a prototype design should be messy, so people feel free to critique and change it. The idea behind a map of emotions would be to allow museum visitors to indicate how they felt about particular exhibits or texts. How could you quickly and easily gather this information in a flexible and easy-to-use way? A lot of places use the spectrum of smilies to rate customer experience. Customers can 'tap' a smiley as they leave a place to indicate if they had a good experience.

However, this limited in range and also top-down -- the designers of the system have preset a range of 'emotions' for the user. How could we let users easily self-define to a certain extent? One way might to have input fields, where people can add new emotions, but also circles to be tapped.

So people could select an emotion, or enter a new term for the display. The circles could be moved and overlapped to indicate where people had felt more than one. These could be made public, or hidden until the user enters their response. How could this be incorporated into a display? Into an app? Into an online exhibition? How could we use it with the digital fugitive slaves data?