1. Lover's Cups are drinking interfaces that allow people to share the experience of drinking with someone remotely through sensors and lights in the cups. 2. The cups detect drinking actions and liquid levels without touching the liquid, then use LEDs and vibration to represent the shared experience between two people in different locations. 3. The goal is to amplify the social aspect of drinking and add new emotional communication channels through representing the intimacy of sharing a drink with someone remotely.

1. Lover’s Cups: Drinking Interfaces as New Communication Channels HyeminChung MIT Media Laboratory Chia-HsunJackie Lee MIT Media Laboratory Ted SelkerMIT Media Laboratory

2. 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

3. 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

4. Add more emotional channels to the traditional communication.增加新的情感溝通方式

5. 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 ChannelsJulie 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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 lifecould 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