Georgy's Home
Create a special keepsake
for a stranger
Georgy's Home is a browser-based interactive experience. Together with Georgy the dog and her robotic toy friend Ed, visitors can make and receive unique personalized gifts from other anonymous users, based on queries like "What's something you accomplished recently that made you feel proud?" The gifts can then be printed and kept as keepsakes.
I hope that asking children to think about their own emotional experiences (i.e. "What makes you feel proud?") will help develop their emotional intelligence, and asking them to think about and respond to other anonymous children's emotional experiences will help develop their empathy. This working prototype features 2 "episodes" that deal with the theme of pride, but later episodes would deal with feelings of loss, anger, and happiness.
Development
Georgy's Home was made using HTML5, Javascript, and PHP/Mysql. It uses a couple libraries to get the job done - CreateJS for sprite animation, tweening, and sound, Fabric.js for drawing in the HTML5 canvas, and TCPDF for generating printable PDFs of the unique items users receive. <3
