The Distant Heart: Mediating Long-Distance Relationships through Connected Computational Jewelry
Yulia Silina, Hamed Haddadi

TL;DR
This paper explores how computational jewelry can serve as a new medium to enhance long-distance relationships by acting as a tangible, wearable connection that evokes presence and emotional closeness.
Contribution
It investigates the potential of jewelry-like computational devices to mediate and strengthen long-distance personal relationships, filling a gap in existing communication technologies.
Findings
Jewelry form factor enhances emotional connection in long-distance relationships.
Computational jewelry evokes presence and emotional closeness.
Prototype studies show positive effects on relationship perception.
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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Taxonomy
TopicsInnovative Human-Technology Interaction · User Authentication and Security Systems · Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
