Ilana:
The Emotion Sleeve: A means of communicating the severity of your emotions without having to use words, for people who either don’t want to speak or can’t express themselves.

The designers created a sleeve, like that of a shirt, with LEDs attached and a piece of conductive stretchable fabric around the cuff. Depending on how much force is put onto the fabric when the wearer makes a fist, the LEDs change color. There are three colors, purple, which is a base or cool temperature; yellow, which is slightly heated; and red, which indicates the most severe extreme emotions. When people are upset, and they are too angry to communicate how upset they are, the sleeve shows the wearer’s emotions and lets the other person their feelings, so they know how to react. The lights convey the feelings of the wearer which will then help them interact with the rest of the world. People may wonder if parents should dress their children in this type of clothing if it could keep the child from finding it necessary to communicate without help. The hope is this technology help autistic children to communicate better and that they use the sleeve intentionally as well as it portraying the emotions that are out of their control.

The sleeve is for people who are too tired or upset to express the severity of their emotions or people with autism or disorders that affect the ability to communicate. The technology to make the sleeve work consists of a microprocessor, 2 LED strips and a piece of fabric that can conduct electricity.

The sleeve helps express emotions in the most basic way, so they could be interpreted by anyone, making communication simpler. The user just wears the sleeve like they would wear a shirt and when they clench their fists, the sleeve portrays externalizes their emotions.

Teju:

The Emotion Sleeve: A sleeve-designed for people who have difficulty expressing their feelings, displays how intense the wearer's emotion is.  

The Emotion Sleeve communicates the intensity of emotions through colorful lights. The device is a cloth sleeve with two LED strips; that connect to a piece of conductive fabric attached to the cuff. The long sleeve reaches down to the palm. The cloth is pressure sensitive and when it is squeezed or stretched, the Arduino changes the color and intensity of the LED light based on how much strength is applied to the cloth. The user squeezes their hand harder or softer depending on the intensity of their emotions. The LEDs have three different colors: red, for a strong emotion; yellow for a less intense emotion; and purple, for a neutral or resting emotion.

The Emotion Sleeve is designed for people who can't verbally say how they are feeling, like autistic people. The sleeve helps the people around the wearer be sensitive and responsive to the wearer’s feelings so that they don’t act on misunderstandings. The device was created to communicate as simply as possible, by using emotion and color association. The concept was designed to be so simple that a very young child could understand the basics of what was happening.