InPhase
Abstract
To supplement existing forms of communication such as telephone and e-mail, this research proposes a new method of communicating “awareness” between people who are separated by long distances. We investigate cases where coincidences in daily activities lead to casual conversation and thus intimacy and togetherness. We propose a new method of communicating these “happy coincidences” between a pair of remotely located locations.By equipping furniture and appliances such as doors, sofas, refrigerators and televisions with sensors, we developed a system wherein these items are connected to remote equivalents and their near simultaneous use is communicated.
Publications
- Hitomi Tsujita, Koji Tsukada, Siio Itiro, InPhase: Evaluation of a Communication System Focused on “Happy Coincidences” of Daily Behaviors, CHI 2010 Conference Proceedings and Extended Abstracts, The 28th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp.2481–2490, April 10- 15, 2010, (Atlanta, GA, USA).
- ACM Student Research Competition Semi Finalist, Hitomi Tsujita, Koji Tsukada, Itiro Siio, InPhase: A Communication System Focused on Happy Coincidences of Daily Behavior, CHI 2009, pp.3401-3406, In Proceedings of the 27th international Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Boston, USA, April 4-9, 2009.
