Social events such as cocktail parties are valuable opportunities to build and sustain interpersonal relationships. However, meeting new people, the self-mixing of cocktails, and tracking one's beverage consumption can be difficult and intimidating. To support users during social events, we introduce CheersMate, a smart drinking glass that enables the simultaneous use of a private and a public wearable display. The private display provides cocktail mixing guidance to the user and shows personal consumption statistics during conversations, while the public display encourages social interaction by revealing the user's name and current drink. By clinking two CheersMates, the user can transfer additional information from the private to the public display, for example, showing the number of people the user has toasted with and the number of already consumed drinks. A pilot study with eight participants provides first insights on the acceptance of our concept and on the perceived usefulness as a social catalyst.
Social events such as cocktail parties are valuable opportunities to build and sustain interpersonal relationships. However, meeting new people, the self-mixing of cocktails, and tracking one's beverage consumption can be difficult and intimidating. To support users during social events, we introduce CheersMate, a smart drinking glass that enables the simultaneous use of a private and a public wearable display. The private display provides cocktail mixing guidance to the user and shows personal consumption statistics during conversations, while the public display encourages social interaction by revealing the user's name and current drink. By clinking two CheersMates, the user can transfer additional information from the private to the public display, for example, showing the number of people the user has toasted with and the number of already consumed drinks. A pilot study with eight participants provides first insights on the acceptance of our concept and on the perceived usefulness as a social catalyst.
