Family Circles, is a flexible and portable voice messagin solution that enables people to record messages and leave them at any desirable place in the home. Multiple, portable messaging tokens are able to store and play a single voice message and communicate secondary information utilising various properties of the light that is integrated in the tokens. Tokens containing a message that is already properly received, can be collected and stored together at a docking station.
The light in the tokens can vary in colour and brightness. The colour of the light can be altered at the docking station, in order to communicate meta-information about the sender. When someone encounters a messaging token, the stored message can be played by pushing down on the top of the token.
Reference: Schatorjé R., Markopoulos, P., Intra-Family Messaging with Family Circles. 2013. In Neustaedter et al. (eds.) Connecting Families. Springer-Verlag 2013
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