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Sense you in TeleTouch : designing mediated social touch in asynchronous communication
Wei, Y. (2022) Sense you in TeleTouch : designing mediated social touch in asynchronous communication.
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| Abstract: | By applying mediated social touch in asynchronous communication, we aim at enhancing the social connectedness for remote loved ones. An observation study based on messaging tools was produced to understand asynchronous communication in the daily context. We proposed a communication system applying mediated social touch in asynchronous communication. Interested in the pleasant tactile sensation, two creative technology design cycles were produced. We implemented a communication system that enables remote loved ones to convey affective messages through touch sensation in a flexible timing space. The final evaluation was deployed at participants’ homes over a few days of usage. As the results of this work, we discuss the effects of our implementation on social connectedness. Our implementation succeeded at giving a calm and pleasant mediated affective communication that enhanced social connectedness. We share the discussion of our design practice by highlighting several opportunities and giving insights for future work, including applying warmth and softness for physical composition, opening spaces for diverse relationships, richer variables for touch messages, consideration for embodied information, limitation and future improvement. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Faculty: | EEMCS: Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science |
| Subject: | 05 communication studies, 50 technical science in general, 70 social sciences in general |
| Programme: | Interaction Technology MSc (60030) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/89393 |
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