MyNote: Making
Emotion Tangible

Interaction Design, Affective Computing, Sound, Spatial Interfaces, App Development

When: May – November 2025
Practice: Multi-sensory interaction · App & spatial experience
My contribution: Three-person team
Concept, research & UI/UX

MyNote — the complete project introduction

01 / The proposition

A feeling doesn’t always begin with a word.

MyNote explores emotional expression through sound, musical characters, and spatial interaction. A feeling becomes something to listen to, look at, and revisit.

I led the concept and contributed research, product analysis, UI/UX, visual materials, and front-end design within a three-person team. We refined the experience through mentor feedback and distributed the application through TestFlight.

Express

A gentle check-in opens a personal conversation.

Listen

Musical and visual responses give a feeling a sensory form.

Revisit

A personal score and emotional traces create continuity over time.

02 / Research & framing

Making room for more than a text entry

The research considers the gap between digital connection and the ability to communicate an internal experience. Emotional granularity, affective interaction, and calm technology informed a system with several expressive channels.

Three principles emerged: make expression tangible, connect sensory modes, and preserve room for a person’s own interpretation.

The background and theoretical lens informing emotional expression.

From the design opportunity to principles, interaction, and emotion mappings.

03 / A closer look at the interaction

From a daily check-in to a personal score

Mood recording, musical response, immersive listening, and emotional history belong to one connected journey. Each representation offers a way to reflect; the person remains the authority on what their experience means.

MyNote’s connected journey: check in, listen, and revisit.

A closer look

The immersive listening and viewing environment.

Beyond the phone

An emotion can occupy a space.

The spatial experience gives visual and sonic elements a surrounding presence. A shared visual language connects a brief mobile check-in with a more immersive moment of listening.

04 / Design & development

One language across sensing, sound, and space

The visual identity grows from musical notation: a personified “M” and expressive note characters connect MyNote to the idea of a personal score.

The team’s technical exploration connects SwiftUI, HealthKit, Core ML, AudioKit, and RealityKit with a FastAPI and Firebase/Firestore backend. My contribution centred on the concept, research, product analysis, UI/UX, visual materials, and front-end design. Local musical feedback and asynchronous generation were explored to balance responsiveness with richer output.

The architecture boards document several model configurations and experiments. They describe the development process rather than one fully validated production pipeline.

Sensing, expressive input, and the musical response pipeline.

A closer look

A visual language across musical characters, mobile UI, and spatial prototypes.

05 / Recognition & sharing

Taking MyNote into a wider conversation

MyNote received a National Second Prize in the 2025 Mobile Application Innovation Competition and a National Third Prize at UXDA. I also joined the competition’s project showcase workshop.

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