We present Animo, a smartwatch app that enables people to share and view each other's biosignals. We designed and engineered Animo to explore new ground for smartwatch-based biosignals social computing systems: identifying opportunities where these systems can support lightweight and mood-centric interactions. In our work we develop, explore, and evaluate several innovative features designed for dyadic communication of heart rate. We discuss the results of a two-week study (N=34), including new communication patterns participants engaged in, and outline the design landscape for communicating with biosignals on smartwatches.
@article{arxiv.1904.06427,
title = {Animo: Sharing Biosignals on a Smartwatch for Lightweight Social Connection},
author = {Fannie Liu and Mario Esparza and Maria Pavlovskaia and Geoff Kaufman and Laura Dabbish and Andrés Monroy-Hernández},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.06427},
year = {2019}
}
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Journal Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT/UbiComp '19). Volume 3 Issue 1, March 2019. Article No. 18