Koubachi: A Mobile Phone Widget to Enable Affective Communication with Indoor Plants
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چکیده
We introduce Koubachi, a system designed to enable interaction between plants and humans. A plant is equipped with several sensors, which are connected to a wireless sensor node. By performing various measurements, the sensor node can determine the current health status of the plant. The user can access this data at all times through a small mobile phone application, a so called mobile widget. In case the node detects a change in the health status, the mobile widget is brought to the foreground in order to get the user’s attention. We implement the principles of affective communication [8] to notify the user about the plant’s health status since we believe that this special form of information propagation has various benefits compared to non-emotional communication.
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