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Evaluation of an Affective Wearable Tool for the Transmission of Affection Gestures Between Geographically Separated Loved Ones

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Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence (UCAmI 2017)

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This paper presents the design, development and preliminary evaluation of an affective wearable device for the transmission of affection gestures between grandparents and grandchildren who are geographically separated. A preliminary evaluation of the device with 33 subjects showed that it is possible to evoke affection gestures. Moreover, such gestures of affection can be tuned in such a way to appear to be real, in order to allow a closer and constant relationship between geographically separated loved ones.

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  1. Facultad de Ciencias, UABC, Universidad de Baja California, Ensenada, Mexico

    Flor B. Montañez, Alberto L. Morán, Victoria Meza-Kubo & Eloísa García-Canseco

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Montañez, F.B., Morán, A.L., Meza-Kubo, V., García-Canseco, E. (2017). Evaluation of an Affective Wearable Tool for the Transmission of Affection Gestures Between Geographically Separated Loved Ones. In: Ochoa, S., Singh, P., Bravo, J. (eds) Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. UCAmI 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10586. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67585-5_78

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