Augmenting Interpersonal Communication through Connected Lighting

Margaret E. Morris, Douglas M. Carmean, Artem Minyaylov, Luis Ceze
2017 Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI EA '17  
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
more » ... ation 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.
doi:10.1145/3027063.3053141 dblp:conf/chi/MorrisCMC17 fatcat:xm4z3vdju5hmbkfgmubldazcp4