Moonwatch is The Emotion Lab’s latest project which changes our understanding of time and life.The moon has been a guide and object of admiration and mysticism duringthousands of years. Agriculture, fertility, tidal patterns, human behaviour and many other activities have been linked to the different moon phases.
Moonwatch has been designed to establish a relationship between the mooncycle and a person’s emotional states. It’s a new concept of time based onnature which invites people to reflect upon and gain a closer understanding of their mood and daily life on earth.With Moonwatch, a person is always able to determine exactly what phasethe moon is in. Clouds, pollution or a general ignorance to the moon cycleare no longer an issue. With time and observation, a person can find patterns which sync their behaviour or happenings to the different phases.
The Moonwatch also indicates the time with a user being able to switch between the two interfaces with a push of the button. During the day, the time is indicated with a black background and during the night the interface changes to white in order to improve visability.A small solar cell helps to charge the watch; another analogy which highlights the relationship between sun and moon.The watch’s simplicity and improvements with the interaction between watchand user complete the design, which fuses nature and technology to generate new emotions within the user.
