Several studies have been made on advice encounters supported by tabletop displays, yet the potential of handheld devices in enhancing advice interaction still remains open to research. As an attempt to fill this gap in the literature, we chose Turkish coffee fortune-telling, as it is a centuries-old practice of giving advice that is based on the use of a cup and saucer. We organized sessions with 34 fortune-tellers and analyzed their verbal and non-verbal interaction during advice instances. Our analysis resulted in 7 preliminary design considerations: single-hand interaction, beat gestures to augment advice messages, body as a reference point, different ways of sharing information, manipulating objects to soften advice messages, multiple advisor profiles and regulating gaze interaction. To see how these considerations would be employed in practice, we organized a participatory design workshop which yielded 6 handheld device concepts that proposed stimulating mechanisms for advice interaction.

KUAR | Face the Irrational from sinankaracam on Vimeo.

This animation is a teaser for a conceptual work on turkish coffee fortune telling.
Advisors: Oğuzhan Özcan, Tilbe Göksun
Concept development: Ahmet Börütecene
Animation: Sinan Karaçam
https://www.behance.net/gallery/26664825/KUAR-Face-the-Irrational

Publication
 Paper
 Proceedings

Images

The figures below illustrate some of the device concepts proposed during the participatory design workshop and a design consideration we derived from our analysis of the fortune-telling sessions.

Illustrations by Sabri Börütecene and photos by Çağlar Genç.

Reference
Ahmet Börütecene, İdil Bostan, Tilbe Göksun, and Oğuzhan Özcan. 2016. Informing Design Decisions for Advice Mediating Handheld Devices by Studying Coffee Cup Reading. In Proceedings of the 9th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI ’16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 7, 10 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2971485.2971523