MossWater: A Living Media Interface for Encouraging Office Workers’ Daily Water Intake

BSTRACTTracking drinking behaviors and digitally presenting the information can motivate people's daily water intake. In this paper, we present MossWater, a living interface designed to visualize the daily water intake and so as to motivate people to drink water more frequently and proactively. The system utilizes living interface as an unobtrusive ambient display to evoke empathy. Caring and watering the moss is designed as a metaphor for caring for people's health by regularly drinking, which invokes people's feeling of empathy to motivate their healthier behaviors. This paper also presents the results of a user study exploring the usability of MossWater and users' feedbacks to this living interface. Our system is expected to promote the welfare of both human and nature in the long-term.