For more than a decade the use of ubiquitous computing technologies in the domestic space -the so-called smart homeshas been a subject for research. While research has focused on smart homes and its inhabitants in various incarnations, little or no research has been questioning how these smart homes engender hospitality towards guests and how inhabitants in a smart home can express hospitality using ubiquitous technologies. This paper defines the novel notion of "digital hospitality" and proposes an early state system design based on coupled displays. The system called EWIA is designed to facilitate and strengthen the relationship between guest and host by utilizing both private smart phone displays and domestic displays.
People living a global lifestyle connect remotely to their families while away from home. In this paper we identify a need for connecting with a home as the physical place itself. For this purpose we introduce the concept of Home Awareness that connects people sensuously to remote places through sound, light and feeling of temperature. A working prototype has been successfully tested and we present some results from early user studies.
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