This part of the research is interested in exploring how the emotional machinations of social networking sites can be made visible to users of these sites when they are away from their computer screens in some form of small portable hand-held device like a computer mouse. The device would have several built in physical blush responses that can be sensed in the real world when someone is engaging with your personal content online. For example the device appears to beat faster when someone’s gives you a nudge, a buzz or a ten out of ten, or perhaps changes colour depending on the number of profile views you have received that day. A web based virtual version of the device would be the bridging point where data is collected from various social networking sites and then sent in emotion packets to the device probably via SMS and/or Bluetooth.

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