The first ever Emotion Hack Day took place in Helsinki, Finland on 28.8 – 29.8.2015.

24 hours, 40 people on-site + streaming to 200 followers.

Examples of projects:

• a game-like application for gathering big data on emotions conveyed by facial expressions (works currently only on Firefox)
• an application that transformed facial expression data into an emoji (called Catmoji.me)
• emoji visualization and mapping to emotion dimensions
• transforming psychophysiological emotion data into sound

Supported by organizations such as Affectiva, Noldus, Ambronite, The Finnish national broadcasting company Yle and Reaktor.