Ending a gaming session can be challenging for children and parents/guardians. Although many tools exist to monitor and restrict playtime, many do not adequately communicate session progress to children, and do not effectively involve guardians in the ...

Our research investigated whether music can communicate physical activity levels in daily life. Past studies have shown that simple musical tunes can provide wellness information, but no study has examined whether musical feedback can affect daily ...

In this paper, we present the design of Element, an ambient display system that displays the user’s emotional engagement level through color and shape change on a light fixture. Given the increasing number of people who experience exhaustion or burnout ...

To promote calm breathing inside a car, we designed a just-in-time breathing intervention stimulated by multi-sensory feedback and evaluated its efficacy in a driving simulator. Efficacy was measured via reduction in breathing rate as well as by user ...

This paper explores a novel concept of textile-based shadow displays that incorporates shape memory alloys (SMA) on fabrics to cast dynamic shadows as an ambient information display. To explore this, we implemented a lamp prototype, capable of ...

This paper outlines the roadmap and the preliminary results of a data-driven study aimed at providing the real-time notification using ambient displays tailored to people having solar panel and home storage battery installed at households. The objective ...

In this paper the authors present the BioCrystal-a biofeedback device that uses physiological data to evaluate user's affective states in real-time and signals the states via an ambient display. The authors evaluated the BioCrystal during a 2-week, in ...

This paper discusses the possibility of using embodied Ambient Displays for presenting information in a public setting. For embodying an Ambient Display, a Nabaztag rabbit was used, the information displayed was a weather forecast. Throughout four weeks ...