Project Goodcry

Thesis Project

I Cried Button

'I cried button' was created to explore the relationship between emotion and media.This project was in collaboration with Bisten Chen and got featured in
‍TIME, PSFK, Forbes, etc.

'I cried button' was a plug-in button in Youtube. Users pressed this button when they cried while watching a footage from Youtube. The button acted similar to ‘like’ button as the clicks were counted and saved.

The button also showed how many other people cried at the video. We counted words associated with crying in 1000 latest comments and saved them in a database. These numbers were combined with the number of clicks gathered by the ‘I cried’ button widget.

Key features:

Click the button when you cry and rate your crying experience
Search for videos to check out how many people cried over the same video as you
Guess at which video people cried most and find out if you were correct at Project Goodcry website.

This website displayed videos where people cried at most, ratings of them, and real time information about the usage of the button.

The aim of this project was to suggest a simple way to communicate the state of crying in digital space, and to help people reflect and ask themselves “What makes me cry?” “How does it feel to know what other people cried at?.”