You’re probably familiar with GIFs – those looping few-second-long movie and television show clips that have taken the internet by storm in recent years. Now you can find the perfect GIF to express your feelings, thanks to a handy website called GIFGIF.
Created by MIT Media Lab students Travis Rich and Kevin Hu, the database lets you search for GIFs according to emotion. It collects data from visitor input and responses in order to better categorize its existing content; users are asked to compare two GIFs side-by-side and select the one that conveys an emotion better. It currently has over 1,000 GIFs which are taken from Giphy.
Aside from creating a better GIF database, the duo hope to uncover correlations and patterns in the process. “As with all human interactions, interpretation of emotion varies across cultures, moods, and context. We’d love to find some data measurements that show this variation quantitatively. We would also like to answer questions like: how are angry GIFs different from sad GIFs? Why are some GIFs ambiguous while others are clear? How many emotions can a single GIF represent?”
Head over to the GIFGIF website to contribute to it.
[via Yahoo and BuzzFeed, images via GIFGIF]