This thesis proposes MOTHER APP, an Application to Media Furniture Platform that creates a Family Memories Theater to document and exhibit shared household life experiences in the living room, automatically capturing spontaneous moments into photos by sensing if the family members are together through furniture. The thesis introduces the research, design process and implementation of MOTHER APP, describe the evalutation about how households use it to gain the new experience in the living room through family photographs. Family memory is a source of family identity, or the sense of belonging to the family. Family album is a rich source of family memory, without family album, it will difficult to recall vividness of those events. While family album can capture planned events, such as wedding. However, there are so many important spontaneous moments in everyday life that are hard to be remembered and recalled when family shared life experiences together in living room. Moreover, picture taking oftentimes requires people to stop their ongoing activities, such party, conversation with guests, or playing with kids,or we say taking pictures breaks the natural sequence of life. Therefore, the purpose of MOTHER APP is to record the communications of family members on the basis of embeded sensing technology in the Media Furniture system constructed intelligent enviroment, and gives the user a digital family album which is displayed through an open Media-Television. The furniture and the living room together construct a system to record and display family memories.
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