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Interactive Potted Plants for Emotion Control
Aithne Seng-Yeng Pao, Emelie KaiFeng Cheng, Kenghao Chang
Description
The potted plant is not only served as a representation of user's emotions, but also a media for long-distance users to
interact with each other, and show their consideration for each other.
We use EEG as an input device to detect specific emotions of the user. For example, it is known that the frontal EEG
asymmetry represents depression. We will focus especially on emotions with significant EEG patterns, such as
depression and anxiety disorders.
We choose potted plant as the tangible interface because it can be more than a home decoration. There are lots of
possibilities with the potted plant; for example, the interaction of watering plant can be used as a metaphor of care; driedup and yellow leaves can represent unattended and bad mood; green leaves can represent vitality and good mood.
Interaction Scenario
Brain Wave
Read-Out
Local User
There is a pair of potted plants: one plant is placed in
the remote and the other is placed locally. When
the local user is depressed, the leaves of both plants
would wither, which tells the remote user that the local
user needs his/her care.
Remote User
Local User
By watering the plant, the leaves of local plant would turn green, which
makes the depressed person knows that somebody is paying attention
to him/her. At the same time the watering action may trigger the local
plant to emit music to ease the local user's depression.
Remote User
Local User
Local User
In addition to watering the plant, the remote user can send
message to the local user via the plant. When emote user
send a message, a fruit on the local plant will drop. Local
user pick up the fruit, open it, and read the message inside
it.
After the interactions between the users and plant, the
local user is cheered up. When he/she no longer feels
depressed, the plants will receive the non-depressed
EEG signals and bloom again.