Augmenting Interpersonal Communication through Connected Lighting

This paper describes a system, WeLight, that we developed to facilitate communication. It allows individuals to configure the lights in one another's homes as well as their own. We describe this system and its motivation from exploratory interviews with households using existing connected light...

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Published inProceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems pp. 1924 - 1931
Main Authors Morris, Margaret E., Carmean, Douglas M., Minyaylov, Artem, Ceze, Luis
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, NY, USA ACM 06.05.2017
SeriesACM Conferences
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Human-centered computing
Human-centered computing > Collaborative and social computing
emotion
connected devices
communication
lighting
IoT
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Summary:This paper describes a system, WeLight, that we developed to facilitate communication. It allows individuals to configure the lights in one another's homes as well as their own. We describe this system and its motivation from exploratory interviews with households using existing connected lighting products. To ease inter-household communication, we integrated connected lights, specifically Phillips Hue and LIFX, with widely adopted messaging services, such as SMS. To support spontaneous communication within and across households, we developed scene creation capabilities involving natural language processing and image search. We also describe features intended to enhance spoken conversation, specifically light adjustment according to speech content and sentiment.
ISBN:9781450346566
1450346561
DOI:10.1145/3027063.3053141