Interactive packaging for development of personal hygiene habits

A method for detecting usage of a personal hygiene product, a personal hygiene product package or a restroom facility, and for determining the appropriateness of the detected usage of the product, package or facility, the method comprising:

• detecting a physical stimulus associated with the usage of the product, package or facility;
• determining whether the usage of the associated product, package or facility is an appropriate usage based on the detected physical stimulus;
• and
• outputting a sensory perceptible output corresponding to an appropriate usage of the associated product, package or facility in response to determining that the usage of the associated product, package or facility was an appropriate usage.

An interactive packaging system for monitoring the usage of a plurality of personal hygiene products, personal hygiene product packages, and restroom facilities, the interactive packaging system comprising:

• a plurality of usage monitoring devices each configured to detect physical stimulus associated with the usage of the product, package or facility with which the usage monitoring device is associate, and to transmit usage messages containing information relating to the detected physical stimulus;
• and
• a base station configured to receive the usage messages transmitted by the plurality of usage monitoring devices and to generate sensory perceptible outputs corresponding to the information contained in the usage messages,
• wherein one of the usage monitoring devices and the base station is configured to determine whether the usage of the product, package or facility associated with a usage monitoring device is an appropriate usage based on the physical stimulus detected at the corresponding usage monitoring.