ShareWarm (2008)
ShareWarm
-ShareWarm is a affective object to help you deliver a implicit and warm message to someone else in a critical situation.
Sometimes you don’t really like be disturbed when you are busy, but you have to reply a message to your friends or families immediately. Due to this dilemma, we design a affective object to deliver your care and greeting to others who you care about without any text or voice. When you trigger a signal within mobile wireless device, this object which is placed at home could help you deliver your greeting to someone. “ShareWarm” is a affective service, which can shine for a while when a signal comes. Light means a warm message from someone who care about you.
We know that body movement could express semantic meaning to other people by Choreography, so we plan to design movement to our product. People can interact with product and realize the implicit message. Gesture of “hold up” has some semantic meanings such as “care,” “treasure,” and “sharing.” We plan to bring such message or meaning into people’s heart and let people know somebody send a warm message for him/her.
We collect the idea and feeling when people do “hold up” gesture and utilize fluid and shine material to create a prototype. When people send a implicit message, the objective would shine for a wile and decrease the brightness of the light. The light would emerge people to hold up it and deliver a semantic meaning to them. People would feel relax and warm when they realize the implicit message. ShareWarm help people build a close connection to their friends and families.
當無法用言語來傳遞你的關懷時，ShareWarm幻化成一隻隻螢火蟲，悄悄地為你所愛的人捎來溫暖的問候。很多時候，你會因為種種原因即時回應別人過多的情感或是不想被打擾，但又不想冷漠對待這些關心你的人。在這種矛盾又衝突的時候，我們設計出Share Warm情感傳遞的裝置，讓你主動的默默的關懷。
“捧”的動作是一種珍惜的情感傳遞方式，如：捧著一碗熱湯、一束捧花都會帶給別人溫暖的問候。以這樣的概念，Share warm在人與人之間的聯繫上，扮演緩和的媒介，同時建立愛與被愛方內心底層的安全感。
當Share Warm接受到訊息時，會持續一段時間呈現發光閃爍的狀態，呼喚著人們。將其輕輕捧起，
感受燈光的流動，一股溫暖、安全的感覺會隨著微光經由手心流進心中，得到平撫。
