Cooking Together at a Distance: Sustain Connectedness for Long Distance Families

We describe the design, implementation and evaluation of the Performance Apron and Talking Bottle, two novel devices that aim to enhance and share the experience of cooking together at a distance. The devices support the exchange of voice message and cooking sounds through an augmented bottle controlled through a cooking apron embedded with wearable technology. This design responds to the messy, performative and communicative needs while cooking in the kitchen by interweaving cooking and communication.

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