Initial concept of Casablanca Project. CommuteBoard replaces phone calls with quick handwritten messages on a shared whiteboard. The whiteboard was supplemented by an activity sensor that visually showed the general noise level at the remote location. This audiobased activity sensor indicated whether the remote household was awake.
Source: Hindus, D., Mainwaring, S. D., Leduc, N., Hagstr¨om, A. E., and Bayley, O. 2001. Casablanca: Designing Social Communication Devices for the Home. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’01). ACM Press, 325–332.
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