The pillow: artist-designers in the digital age
CHI EA '97 CHI '97 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
SynchroMate: a phatic technology for mediating intimacy
DUX '05 Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Designing for User eXperience
Funology: from usability to enjoyment
Funology: from usability to enjoyment
PillowTalk: can we afford intimacy?
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Tangible and embedded interaction
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The 'Talkative Cushion' is a novel audio recorder which transforms recorded voices into humorous and ludicrous sounds. It is proposed as a phatic device for homes. It is designed to make people playful and funny when communicating in homes because a delightful situation makes people active to talk. In this paper, we describe why and how a cushion is selected as our target object and how the concept of phatic technologies applied to the cushion.