Presence Light (concept | by Hindus et al, 2001)

A pair of linked decorative objects that come in a variety of styles. The objects show activity from a remote location. If one light senses nearby sounds or movement it tells the other light in the other house to turn on. More activity makes the light brighter. A user’s presence is communicated to others only if he/she explicitly activates the IPL device.
Concept that is later based on this idea: Intentional Presence Lampshade

Hindus, D., Mainwaring, S. D., Leduc, N., Hagström, 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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