Multi-sensory EmotiPlant : multimodal interaction with augmented plants

Plants are live beings with often underestimated sensory and communicative abilities. In this paper, we sensitize to these natural abilities and we show how they can be extended through technology. To these purpose, we propose a framework for multisensory augmented plants and we present the design of three different augmented plants that are able to communicate with humans through different modalities. The three systems aim at bridging the communication gap between plants and humans, with a particular focus on cognitive or sensory impaired people.