The toilet entertainment system

A toilet is not only a place where people answer calls of nature. It is also a place for contemplation and reflection ? and a place where people read information. But bringing things to read into a public toilet is not always socially accepted and it might be embarrassing to be discovered. We have chosen to address this problem by printing information such as news directly onto the disposable toilet paper. The project described here is an attempt to question the naturalness of having ubiquitous computers, cause reflections concerning what kind of problems ubiquitous computing really are solving and to indicate that there might be places where computation is not desirable. Keywords Aesthetic artifacts, critical design, interaction design, ubiquitous computing.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Johan Thoresson, Pär Stenberg
• Keywords: CHI 2003, Disposable Toilet Paper, Human Computer Interaction, Problems Ubiquitous Computing, Ubiquitous Computers