[Intimate] Lover's Cups

Lover’s Cups: Drinking Interfaces as New Communication Channels
MIT Media Laboratory
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CHI2006

• The behavior of drinking has social meanings and functions
• to add more emotional channels to the traditional communication and improve the quality of interconnections
• sharing feelings of drinking between two people in different places
• Scenarios: For Lovers, Nurse, Family, and Patient, a Social Event; With Other Communication Channels
• Interactive Techniques: Attentive Illumination, Virtual Kiss, Connectivity, Shaking Hands, Toasting as Commitment
• Implementation

(To be continued...)