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Design for Connecting People Through Digital Artworks with Personal Information

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Nowadays, people often experience physical separation in daily life. The level of social connectedness between people is declining gradually, but social connectedness is much important for human well-being. Communication techniques for people connecting remotely are most aimed at verbal information communication. However, during physical interaction, there is still a lot of non-verbal personal information other than direct verbal information we can perceive that contributes to social connectedness. Therefore, we try to explore if combining non-verbal personal information into digital artworks in a daily context, would influence connectedness between people. In this paper, we present VizArt, a channel that helps people connect through digital artworks with non-verbal personal information. A functional prototype was implemented and a pilot experiment was conducted.

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Acknowledgement

The first author of this paper is supported by China Scholarship Council (CSC).

The design of “Walk into Broccoli” in the experiment setup is from the Digital Art Class outcomes. Thanks to my team member Yingxia Li, Xinyi Xu, Mengyao Chen, and Xuan Lu.

The smart cushion for office chairs is from BOBO Technology. Thanks to BOBO Technology for providing the smart cushions and related technical support in this experiment.

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  1. Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Rui Wang & Jun Hu

  2. School of Design, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China

    Rui Wang

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  1. University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Barbara Göbl

  2. Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Erik van der Spek

  3. Royal Institute of Technology, Södertälje, Sweden

    Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge

  4. Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Esch-Sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

    Rod McCall

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Wang, R., Hu, J. (2022). Design for Connecting People Through Digital Artworks with Personal Information. In: Göbl, B., van der Spek, E., Baalsrud Hauge, J., McCall, R. (eds) Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2022. ICEC 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13477. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20212-4_32

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