Smile, and the whole world smile with you

RESEARCH TOPIC Infection of Smile

BACKGROUND"Smiling is infectious, you catch it like the flu. When someone smiled at me today, I started smiling too."

Smiling is indeed important in our everyday life, both in our personal lives as well as within the workplace. When you smile, it does tend to trigger off smiles in others around you. Even in extremely stressful situations, a smile can easily brighten up everybody's mood.

PROBLEM IDENTIFICATIONNowadays people are facing a lots of stress and unhappy things in life and most of them can't be avoid. Smiling face are decreasing but that is a good antidote for stress.

AIM AND OBJECTIVESTo encourage people to smile more.

MOTIVATIONShare happiness to others and gain happiness from others also.

IDEATION AND CONCEPTCreate an online application which can let people share and gain “smile” . Beside the main website, create an flashmob to let the cyberspace full of smiling face.

Cadbury's Picnic: IT'S NO PICNIC

"IT'S NO PICNIC" is a campaign launched by Cadbury’s Australia for their Picnic chocolate bar.

YouTube Event - Show your Smile!Make a video reply with your smile: it can be a video, a picture, or a drawing.

No words or audio necessary - just SMILE. Show the world you haven't forgotten how.

Desigual Happy Hunters

Is it possible to flood the internet with thousands of happy messages?

I amsterdam: The Happy 2010 Sing-a-LongTo wish the whole world a happy new year, I amsterdam launches the Happy 2010 Sing-a-long.

Everybody can make their own clip and send it to friends or watch other people sing-a-long.

ready made funny effects or graphics-to make the smiling photos become more fun and happy

type in their own text in the photos - better use of people own creativity and customization

taking photos while users viewing other photos

- may get photos of users laughing while viewing those funny photos

- generate the effect of "infection"

put all smiling photos together at home page- to render the whole page to happiness feeling

top rated photos - to encourage people to share their "smile" and influence to more people

comments on photos - can make the whole site more interactive and lively

Cyberspace flashmob- changing their profile pictures to smiling photos- to generate a happiness tone on cyberspace

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