Lover’s Cups: Drinking Interfaces as New Communication

Channels

Hyemin Chung

MIT Media Laboratory

Chia-Hsun Jackie Lee MIT Media Laboratory

Ted SelkerMIT Media Laboratory

1. share the time of drinking with someone they care about in different places .

分享

2. becomes a communication device .

溝通

3. amplifying the social aspect of drinking behavior .

社交

1. “tea time” or “coffee break” show how drinking is related with open social activities.

放鬆 分享的時刻

2. when sharing their food or feeding other people, there was more intimacy than when they weren’t . (1998 Miller, L., Rozin, P., and Fiske)

分享食物讓人更親密

3. Context-aware design approaches encourage understanding human intention by simple sensors and promote human-to-human communication .

用簡單的感測器使人溝通

• Add more emotional channels to the traditional communication.

增加新的情感溝通方式

1. For Lovers

The wife sees her cup glowing which represents her husband is drinking.

不同空間也能同時做同一件事

2. With Other Communication Channels

Julie suggests to Ann to have a coffee break by shaking her cup.

約定進入相同的情境與話題氛圍

3. For Nurse, Family, and Patient

The Lover’s Cups are able to connect the patients to someone who cares about their water drinking behavior.

傳遞關心

4. For a Social Event

Lover’s Cups can be distributed in a social party where everyone uses Lover’s Cups to drink.

配對與群組

1. Lights can be designed as both attentive and ambient interfaces representing different meanings.

被注意與安靜賦予不同意義

2. LEDs are embedded into the Lover’s Cups for displaying the level of the liquid inside and also the color of the liquid.

用LED燈顯示液體狀態

3. When the cups are held by two people, the cups start glowing slowly. Take a sip at the same time, Cups is glowing at its maximum illumination to celebrate the shared intimacy and the feelings of drinking with someone s/he cares about.

分享的視覺呈現

4. The paired Lover’s Cups are connected by wireless technology .

short distance => Radio-Frequency (RF)

long distance => RF => Computer by Internet => RF

連接

5. If a person shakes Cup, the other cup will vibrate to generate the remote hand-shaking feeling to the other person.

握手行為

1. The hardware of Lover’s Cup consists of a double-sided acrylic cup .

壓克力組成

2. Capacitive sensing techniques were used to detect the liquid level and drinking action without contacting the liquid, so sensors could be invisible.

電容傳感器 – 水位與喝水

3. One sensor transmitting the reference signal was installed on the surface of the cup to be touched by a user’s hand when the cup was held by a user.

其中一個傳感器安置在手握位置

4. LEDs are used to show the status of the other cup.

LED被用來顯示別的杯子狀態

5. Piezo sensors and micro motors made more active communication possible.

壓電感測器與微型馬達應用

6. Another possible interaction is toasting.

敬酒互動

• Lover’s Cups as new interfaces which explore the area of drinking together with sensory communication channels.

一起喝水的感覺新介面

• This interface introduces interactive drinking opportunities for emotional interaction, health care, family care, and social activities.

增加喝水時在情感上的互動機會

• Communication in our daily life could be extended to more sensual, tactile or other subtle actions.

延伸更多溝通的感官,有形的或是行為