“Emotional Cartography – Technologies of the Self” is a freely downloadable collection of essays from artists, designers, psycho-geographers, cultural researchers, and more all brought together by Christian Nold to visualize intimate biometric data and emotional experiences.
Probably the best known emotion maps are the ones resulting Bio Mapping project, a community mapping project in which the Galvanic Skin Response (GSR), a simple indicator of the emotional arousal, is recorded in conjunction with one’s geographical location. By combining the emotional responses of over 1,500 people over a period of 4 years, several “Emotion Maps” were generated of the city in which the participants roamed around.
Emotional Cartography: Implications of Visualizing Intimate Biometric Data – information aesthetics.
