Chip and I took a simple and mundane task, watering a house plant, and separated the basic steps and put them on extreme ends. Conceptually it is a wireless interaction, but this version is wired. So the concept is about watering a plant remotely and about the interactions it could create.
On one end, the user (user A) can have the visuals and the presence benefits of owning a plant, but user A can’t water the plant, nor touch it, and it difficult to tell when it needs watering.
On the other end (User B), the user has the satisfaction of keeping this plant alive, but s/he can’t see it.
This broken communication structure can motivate the involved ones to seek communication between them.
Other situations in which this concept could be used are :
-Kids plant caring
-Traveling and away from plant
In the video, Chip realizes he could use a concept like his to have a new level of interact with his host dad.
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