Technologically Mediated Intimate Communication: An Overview and Future Directions

Saadatian, Elham; Samani, Hooman; Toudeshki, Arash; Nakatsu, Ryohei

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-41106-9_11

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“…Saadatian et al [15] provide a nice review of technologies for mediated intimate connections. In their paper specific mediation technologies are among other distinguished in regards to how abstract and poetically (as apposed to how literally and [18] holistically) they convey the input from the sending user to the output experienced by the receiving user.…”

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OperaBooth

Gelineck

2014

Proceedings of the 9th Audio Mostly: A Conference on Interaction With Sound

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This paper describes the development and evaluation of an installation that explores intimate connections between remote strangers. The conceptual intension of the installation considers that music can be used as a universal language through which strangers can communicate. For that, several approaches have been taken to enhance the feeling of intimacy between the users of the installation. The paper describes related work within the field of mediated intimacy and musical interaction forming the initial goals of the system. It then describes the iterative development process, which includes two smaller prototype tests. The resulting installation implements two large human size boxes with a hole in each for inserting one's head. Inside the box users can view the face of the remote stranger. A special setup enables users to appear very close to each other while being able to look each other in the eye for an enhanced feeling of intimacy. Finally, a face-tracking algorithm detects when users open their mouth, which results in them triggering the voice of an opera singer. Thus, strangers (who are not musically skilled) are able to explore an opera-duet in a form of musical exploration and communication.Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than the author(s) must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from Permissions@acm.org.

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Gelineck

2014

Proceedings of the 9th Audio Mostly: A Conference on Interaction With Sound

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“…The idea of a robot's physical contact is expected to extend articial haptic signals into natural, warm, and aective interactions. Communication robots or agents as media have also been developed based on the premise of ongoing communication among people [15,14]. Other schemes feature a wearable avatar robot on the shoulder [9].…”

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Wearable robot that measures user vital signs for elderly care and support

Yamazoe

Yonezawa

2016

Proceedings of the 9th EAI International Conference on Bio-Inspired Information and Communications Technologies (Formerly BIONE

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In this paper, we introduce a wearable robot with vital sensors. So far, we have been developing a wearable partner agent that makes physical contact, which is generated by combining haptic stimuli and the agent's anthropomorphic motions. The haptic stimuli are adjusted and controlled corresponding to the user's posture and surrounding context. However, neither is sucient to recognize the user's physical and emotional conditions. Thus, we extend our system by adding vital sensors, especially a blood pressure sensor, to estimate the user's physical and emotional conditions and achieve elderly care and support based on the obtained user's information.

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“…Saadatian et al [6] provide a nice review of technologies for mediated intimate communication. Further on Saadatian et al [7] describe intimacy as "the perception of closeness to the extend of sharing the physical, emotional and mental personal space", arguing that mediated intimacy can be divided into three overall dimensions (not mutually exclusive): emotional, physical and cognitive.…”

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Evaluating Intimacy and Ludic Engagement with a Musical Interactive Art Installation that Explores Remote Abstract Communication

Gelineck

2015

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. The main contribution of the paper is a usability evaluation of an interactive art installation where several different factors for ludic and intimate engagement in this specific context of remote face-to-face non-verbal communication are compared. Experiments are carried out with the following different overall goals: (1) to understand the importance of direct eye contact, (2) to understand the influence of using different musical outputs and (3) to understand whether providing participants with more detailed control supports exploration. Results indicate that direct eye contact enhances the intimate connection, that opera sounds are more effective than synthetic sounds in terms of intimacy, control, musical expressivity and exploration, and that participants engaged in more exploration with limited control.

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Technologically Mediated Intimate Communication: An Overview and Future Directions

Cited by 12 publications

References 43 publications

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