Abstract
Under the rigid regulation of Chinese 985-Project sponsored university entrance exam for 2.09% in 2018, the new generation of Chinese teenagers usually have to leave their province to another city which is thousand miles away from home. This means that these young adults have to leave familiar family support network and deal with homesickness earlier than other countries. Such lonely experience will affect these young adults who usually grew up as the middle class in the modern Chinese society. Friendship is the only support these young adults will get. And the hug from friends are their most missed interactions. Our research intends to develop an interactive device that can transfer their experience into a supporting comfort system that can provide warm awareness and inter-personal relationship. This paper reports our pilot study: an eMotional Supporting Awareness system (AMISA) as a haptic affect support system that supports affective communication with friends over long-distance. The approach of this study is user centered design, through user interviews and literature reviews, we defined the user requirements and found corresponding technology in HCI to prototype the conceptual design. We developed AMISA from three dimensions: (1) affective analysis; (2) mediated social touch; (3) user experience. Subsequently, we conducted a user evaluation of the prototype, AMISA is used as a data collector to observe user interactions for iterating subsequent design outcomes.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Poyrazli, S., Lopez, M.D.: An exploratory study of perceived discrimination and homesickness: a comparison of international students and American students. J. Psychol. 141, 263–280 (2007)
ten Bhömer, M., van den Hoven, E.: Interaction design for supporting communication between Chinese sojourners. Pers. Ubiquit. Comput. 17, 145–157 (2011)
Octavia, J.R., van den Hoven, E., De Mondt, H.: Overcoming the Distance between Friends (2007)
Haans, A., Ijsselsteijn, W.: Mediated social touch: a review of current research and future directions. Virtual Reality 9, 149–159 (2005)
Hassib, M., Buschek, D., Wozniak, P.W., Alt, F.: HeartChat. In: Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2017, pp. 2239–2251 (2017)
Yu, G.-J., Chang, T.-W., Wang, Y.-C.: SAM: a spatial interactive platform for studying family communication problem. In: Salvendy, G., Smith, Michael J. (eds.) Human Interface 2011. LNCS, vol. 6772, pp. 207–216. Springer, Heidelberg (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21669-5_25
Chung, H., Lee, C.-H.J., Selker, T.: Lover’s cups. In: CHI 2006 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2006 (2006)
Rebughini, P.: Friendship dynamics between emotions and trials. Soc. Res. Online 16, 119–127 (2011)
Mueller, F.F., Vetere, F., Gibbs, M.R., Kjeldskov, J., Pedell, S., Howard, S.: Hug over a distance. In: CHI 2005 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2005 (2005)
Tsetserukou, D.: HaptiHug: a novel haptic display for communication of hug over a distance. In: Kappers, A.M.L., van Erp, J.B.F., Bergmann Tiest, W.M., van der Helm, F.C.T. (eds.) EuroHaptics 2010. LNCS, vol. 6191, pp. 340–347. Springer, Heidelberg (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14064-8_49
Block, A.E., Kuchenbecker, K.J.: Softness, warmth, and responsiveness improve robot hugs. Int. J. Social Robot. 11, 49–64 (2018)
Ugur Yavuz, S., Bordegoni, M., Carulli, M.: A design practice on communicating emotions through sensory signals. Concurr. Eng. 26, 147–156 (2016)
Setyohadi, D.B., Kusrohmaniah, S., Gunawan, S.B., Pranowo, P., Prabuwono, A.S.: Galvanic skin response data classification for emotion detection. Int. J. Electr. Comput. Eng. (IJECE) 8 (2018)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2020 Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this paper
Cite this paper
Bian, Y., Chang, TW. (2020). AMISA: A Pilot Study of an Emotional Supporting Device Between Friends Over Long-Distance. In: Meiselwitz, G. (eds) Social Computing and Social Media. Participation, User Experience, Consumer Experience, and Applications of Social Computing. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12195. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49576-3_34
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49576-3_34
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-49575-6
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-49576-3
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)