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Nowadays, the number of people who keep pets is increasing, and keeping pets is entertaining and relieves the stress of life. However, since the owner has less time to meet his pet on business trips or overtime, we would like to make a hairball which is called ‘KEDAMA’ in Japanese that can be near the owner instead of the pet at such times. This research is a UI/UX design aimed at relieving stress that acts on the five senses. We would like to select the effect of pets on the five senses of people and reduce the stress of people of the present generation. This KEDAMA system in addition to allowing users to choose existing options, can also be customized in the hair length, color, curl and other aspects. After the practical application of the system to the target people and the customized use of the KEDAMA, through our subjective questionnaire survey, the results show that 85% of the people would relieve the pressure to a certain extent after using it.
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Wu, J., Dai, Y., Li, J., Yuan, Y. (2021). UI/UX Design of Portable Simulation Pet ‘KEDAMA’ Hairball for Relieving Pressure. In: Stephanidis, C., Antona, M., Ntoa, S. (eds) HCI International 2021 - Late Breaking Posters. HCII 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1499. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90179-0_28
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