Emotify

Transforming your presentations

Core Features

• App activates webcam
• Snapshots taken based on interval set
• Emotions analysed
• Plots emotions on spider diagram
• Handles multiple faces in photo - averages emotions
• Real-time plotting and emotion analysis on time-series graph
• Hardware integration - light colour changes depending on emotional state

User Stories

As a user,
I want to upload a photo of 1 person,
So that I can analyse it

As a user,
I want my photo to be analysed of 1 person,
So that I can find out an emotion score

As a user,
I want my analysed emotion picture to be displayed in a graph,
So that it is easy to understand

As a user,
I want to upload a photo of multiple people,
So that I can analyse it

As a user,
I want my photo to be analysed of multiple people,
So that I can find out an emotion score

As a user,
I want to use my webcam to take the pictures,
So that is is relevant live data

As a user,
I want a picture to be taken from my webcam every 10 seconds,
So that I can have real-time data

As a user,
I want my analysed crowd to be displayed in a positive index graph,
So that I can track developments in positive emotion over time

As a user,
I want the light to change colour based on emotion,
So that I can improve my mood

Dependency Overview

Technologies and Dependencies

Core

• React.js (built with react-scripts)
• Node.js
• JavaScript

Emotional Analysis

• MCS Emotion API

Data Visualisation

• LIFX
• Chart.js
• React-rt-chart

Styling

• CSS
• Bootstrap

Testing

• Jest
• Enzyme

Deployed to Heroku

Installation and Usage

• Clone this repo
• Run 'npm install' in project root directory
• Generate MCS API Key from Microsoft and save to a .env file in your root directory
• Run 'npm start' to run the local server
• Open http://localhost:3000 to view app
• To view colour mode, purchase a LIFX 9W multi-colour bulb, and generate a LIFX API Key from LIFX and save to the .env file in your root

Alternatively you can experience our working setup online

Testing

• You can run the tests through npm test in project root directory