Intimate Communication Lover‘s cup, the Hug and Making Scents Silvia Lindtner INF 131 February 07

Lover’s cup - drinking interface Jackie Lee and Hyemin Chung MIT Media Lab remote presence context awareness liquid sensors, sip sensors, wi-fi, LEDs implicit communication, emotional communication

Lover’s cup lovers - health care - families - social event - enhance other communication channels

The Hug Jodi Forlizzi et al., Carnegie Mellon The Hug simulates a human hug (such as a child’s hug) through a 16-inch pillow that emits heat, vibrations, sound and light. The Hug is meant to help elderly people physically distant from their relatives to be able to communicate in a more meaningful way.

Making Scents Aromatic Output for HCI Joseph “jofish” Kaye smell an unexplored medium stimulating emotions and memories wellness, health and emotional applications example: inStink, wants to look at a method of communicating smells and thus sharing and communicating in a non-visual, non-audio manner a digitally augmented spice rack - both input and output device