Water is an essential nutrient for human health. However, individuals may ignore drinking enough water due to the rush of everyday life. We present Grow, a conceptual smart bottle prototype designed to encourage users to drink water regularly. Our concept utilizes a bottle surface as an ambient display instead of a traditional screen-based display to give feedback. Grow tracks daily water intake through an embedded liquid level sensor. It gives positive, abstract, non-intrusive, and aesthetic feedback through heating up different parts of a thermochromic print on its surface (a tree image). We also present the results of a user study exploring 10 prospective users’ reactions to Grow as well as their expectations of smart water bottles in general.

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1 National Patent issued by Ministry of Industry and Technology, Turkey

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Coauthor - Conference Paper (CHI '18 Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems / Montreal, Canada)
DOI: 10.1145/3170427.3188521