Home Health Project

Photo by Xacobe de Toro



Home Health Horoscopes Project is a project by Cornell University (Phoebe Sengers) in collaboration with Royal College of Art and Intel, a privacy-preserving 'smart home' that provides open-ended opportunities for reflection on the emotional climate in the home.

The Home Health system, a collaboration with Bill Gaver and Michael Golembewski at the Royal College of Art, London, will be a ubiquitous computing system that monitors a home's emotional climate and provides open-ended feedback about it to users. Everyday household objects are wired with sensors. The resulting sensor data is used to develop a model of the current emotional climate of the people living in the home. Once a day, the user receives a list of suggestions from the system of emotional issues that s/he might wish to consider.