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HiveToHive: Creating Connectedness Over a Distance

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2021

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European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (EUSSET)

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With social distancing becoming the norm in society as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for connectedness is more important than ever. While current communication technologies such as the smartphone and email connect us with others, they don’t necessarily create a feeling of connectedness. To explore alternative ways to promote such feelings, we developed ‘HiveToHive’, a wall-mountable interactive device intended to increase connectedness to distant loved ones using short text messages. HiveToHive consists of individual, connectable, hexagon-shaped touchscreen devices called Hives. Each Hive represents a one-to-one connection between the user and a loved one. During the user evaluation, we found that HiveToHive increased participants’ feelings of connectedness with others.

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Yogarasa, Mathanki; Olesen, Jeppe; Cheon, Eunjeong (2021): HiveToHive: Creating Connectedness Over a Distance. Proceedings of 19th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. DOI: 10.18420/ecscw2021_p21. European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (EUSSET). PISSN: 2510-2591. Poster/Demo. Zurich, Switzerland. 7-11 June 2021

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