The toilet entertainment system

  • Authors:
  • Pär Stenberg;Johan Thoresson

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Göteborg, Göteborg,Sweden;University of Göteborg, Göteborg,Sweden

  • Venue:
  • CHI '03 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

A toilet is not only a place where people answer calls of nature. It is also a place for contemplation and reflection - and a place where people read information. But bringing things to read into a public toilet is not always socially accepted and it might be embarrassing to be discovered. We have chosen to address this problem by printing information such as news directly onto the disposable toilet paper.The project described here is an attempt to question the nat-uralness of having ubiquitous computers, cause reflections concerning what kind of problems ubiquitous computing really are solving and to indicate that there might be places where computation is not desirable.