el Niño is an emotion robot designed to transmit emotions through long distance. Robots in pairs are sychronized through Internet. User can change the state of the robot to refect his/her own emotion and the other robot updates automatically. Long-distance lovers can feel the presence and the emotional state of each other without making phone calls.

 

- Publication: Xinyu Weng, Kristian Gohlke. 2012. El Niño - An Emotion Avatar for Casual, Collateral Communication. In: Workshopband Mensch und Computer 2012 (MuC 2012). H. Reiterer & O. Deussen (Eds.). Oldenbourg Verlag Muenchen, 167-171.
- This product is created in project "m/m/i" led by Prof. Wolfgang Sattler and Kristian Gohlke in winter semester 2012.