Case Study: Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh creates an interactive emotion-recognition mirror with Visage Technologies

Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh An interactive mirror that recognizes emotions

The Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, which welcomes over 300,000 visitors annually, sought to create an interactive exhibit for social-emotional learning. They required a fast and accurate emotion recognition technology to power an interactive mirror for their new Emotions at Play exhibit, developed with Pixar Animation Studios. They chose Visage Technologies and its FaceAnalysis and FaceTrack software from the visage|SDK to meet this challenge.

Visage Technologies provided a lightweight, real-time emotion recognition solution that works locally without an internet connection, ensuring both high performance and visitor privacy. The resulting Gauge Your Emotions Mirror successfully allows children to see their emotions recognized and get playful feedback, making learning about emotions an engaging experience. The museum's directors highlighted the technology's robustness and the vendor's excellent customer support, noting it was a key tool for helping visitors understand the role of emotions in interpersonal interactions.

Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh

Rachel Mastromarino

Director of Business Development