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Designing BookClub: Technologically Mediated Reading and Distant Interactions to Promote Well-Being

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This poster introduces BookClub, a design proposal of technology to promote well-being through reading and social interaction. Here we describe the early stages of our process, including our initial ideas and graphic documentation of our prototyping process. We also discuss a preliminary qualitative study with potential users that helped us identify the areas of opportunity in this design and future research work.

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  1. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA

    Evan Sobetski, Sylvia Sinsabaugh & Gowri Balasubramaniam

  2. San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, 94132, USA

    Omar Sosa-Tzec

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  1. University of Crete and Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Crete, Greece

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Sobetski, E., Sinsabaugh, S., Balasubramaniam, G., Sosa-Tzec, O. (2021). Designing BookClub: Technologically Mediated Reading and Distant Interactions to Promote Well-Being. In: Stephanidis, C., Antona, M., Ntoa, S. (eds) HCI International 2021 - Posters. HCII 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1421. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78645-8_49

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