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This study introduces a digital keepsake box that enhances communications among group users, such as family members and friends, who are living at a distance. It allows users to virtually share items that involve common interests and memories. The box also increases awareness of the existence of other users by slightly opening the cover of the box when other users put items in their box. The results of user studies suggest that the digital keepsake box is useful in enhancing remote communications.
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Kinoshita, Y., Shirakawa, K. (2011). Digital Keepsake Box: Sharing Items and Memories to Enhance Communications among Remote Persons. In: Anacleto, J.C., Fels, S., Graham, N., Kapralos, B., Saif El-Nasr, M., Stanley, K. (eds) Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2011. ICEC 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6972. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24500-8_48
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