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Entry Date:
July 15, 2014

Empathy Box: The Empathy Box is a Networked Appliance That Connects Many Anonymous Poeple Through Shared Warmth

Principal Investigator Patricia Maes

Project Website http://fluid.media.mit.edu/node/332

The Empathy Box is an appliance inspired by Philip K. Dick's science fiction novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? It connects the user to one or many anonymous people using touch.