The traveling café: a communication encouraging system for partitioned offices

Authors:
Toshihiko Nakano;Keita Kamewada;Jun Sugito;Yoshiyuki Nagaoka;Kanayo Ogura;Kazushi Nishimoto
Affiliations:
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi, Ishikawa, Japan;Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi, Ishikawa, Japan;Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi, Ishikawa, Japan;Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi, Ishikawa, Japan;Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi, Ishikawa, Japan;Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi, Ishikawa, Japan
Venue:
CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Year:
2006

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Abstract

In this paper we illustrate the "Traveling Café" that provides opportunities for informal communication by encouraging people to serve coffee to each other. This system consists of "sensor-equipped coasters," "a coffee pot with a supersonic wave oscillator," and "an LCD monitor and a light to display user situations." For two weeks we conducted pilot experiments to evaluate the system's effects and found that it triggered communication even in partitioned offices.