Empathetic living media

Adrian David Cheok, Roger Thomas Kok, Chuen Tan, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Tim Merritt, Janyn Yen Ping Sen

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Abstract

We describe a new form of interactive living media used to communicate social or ecological information in the form of an empa-thetic ambient media. In the fast paced modern world people are generally too busy to monitor various significant social or human aspects of their lives, such as time spent with their family, their overall health, state of the ecology, etc. By quantifying such information digitally, information is semantically coupled into living microorganisms, E. coli. Through the use of transformed DNA, the E. coli will then glow or dim according to the data. The core technical innovation of this system is the development of an information system based on a closed-loop control system through which digital input is able to control input fluids to the E. coli, and thereby control the output glow of the E. coli in real time. Thus, social or ecological based information is coupled into a living and organic media through this control system capsule and provides a living media which promotes empathy. We provide user design and feedback results to verify the validity of our hypothesis, and provide not only system results but generalized design frameworks for empathetic living media in general.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelProceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems - DIS 2008
Antal sider9
Publikationsdato17 dec. 2008
Sider465-473
ISBN (Trykt)9781605580029
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 17 dec. 2008
Udgivet eksterntJa
Begivenhed7th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems - DIS 2008 - Cape Town, Sydafrika
Varighed: 25 feb. 200827 feb. 2008

Konference

Konference7th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems - DIS 2008
Land/OmrådeSydafrika
ByCape Town
Periode25/02/200827/02/2008
SponsorUniversity of Cape Town, Nokia, Microsoft, SAP, SIGCHI, ACM

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