The Distant Heart: Mediating Long-Distance Relationships through Connected Computational Jewelry
Human-Computer Interaction
2015-05-05 v1
Abstract
In the world where increasingly mobility and long-distance relationships with family, friends and loved-ones became commonplace, there exists a gap in intimate interpersonal communication mediated by technology. Considering the advances in the field of mediation of relationships through technology, as well as prevalence of use of jewelry as love-tokens for expressing a wish to be remembered and to evoke the presence of the loved-one, developments in the new field of computational jewelry offer some truly exciting possibilities. In this paper we investigate the role that the jewelry-like form factor of prototypes can play in the context of studying effects of computational jewelry in mediating long-distance relationships.
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@article{arxiv.1505.00489,
title = {The Distant Heart: Mediating Long-Distance Relationships through Connected Computational Jewelry},
author = {Yulia Silina and Hamed Haddadi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.00489},
year = {2015}
}