Opinions Needed – Mood Selector Widget

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As part of the Global Mood project I am currently working on, I feel one way of allowing people to specify their mood is by using an x,y coordinate on a 2d graph (mood really doesn’t seem like a one-dimensional thing to me). I have my first design done for the mood selector widget (just an image at this stage) and really need some feedback.

Firstly, I need to know whether the concept makes sense to people, or whether I have gone off on a tangent that people just won’t get. So displayed below is the first cut of the selector design:

If the concept is sound, then I would really appreciate people’s suggestions on some worthwhile moods to include in my initial “mood registry” and the happiness (x) and keenness (y) values that would make up that mood. To keep things simple I am going to run values from -10 to 10 on each axis.

Some examples to get started with:

• Happy – Happiness 5, Keenness 0
• Sad – Happiness -5, Keenness 0
• Excited – Happiness 3, Keenness 7
• Forlorn – Happiness -7, Keenness -2

In terms of moods that I am struggling to fit using the above method, I have things like frustrated and angry. Alternative suggestions for classifying moods are welcome – really want to make this as intuitive to people as possible.

Oh, and feel free to start using #mood tags in twitter. My appengine application is monitoring and collecting tweet data now so I’ll be using that to build the supported moods also.