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HCI
2011
13 years 2 months ago
Body Buddies: Social Signaling through Puppeteering
While virtual worlds have evolved to provide a good medium for social communication, they are very primitive in their social and affective communication design. The social communic...
Magy Seif El-Nasr, Katherine Isbister, Jeffery Ven...
AAI
2002
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13 years 10 months ago
Scripting Affective Communication with Life-Like Characters in Web-Based Interaction Systems
In this paper, we discuss scripting tools that aim at facilitating the design of web-based interactions with animated characters capable of affective communication. Specifically, ...
Helmut Prendinger, Sylvain Descamps, Mitsuru Ishiz...
IJMMS
2007
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13 years 10 months ago
Communicating emotion through a haptic link: Design space and methodology
Communication of affect across a distance is not well supported by current technology, despite its importance to interpersonal interaction in modern lifestyles. Touch is a powerfu...
Jocelyn Smith, Karon E. MacLean
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Stress outsourced: a haptic social network via crowdsourcing
Stress OutSourced (SOS) is a peer-to-peer network that allows anonymous users to send each other therapeutic massages to relieve stress. By applying the emerging concept of crowds...
Keywon Chung, Carnaven Chiu, Xiao Xiao, Pei-Yu (Pe...