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Hugginess: encouraging interpersonal touch through smart clothes

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Leonardo Angelini,

Omar Abou Khaled,

Elena MugelliniAuthors Info & Claims

ISWC '14 Adjunct: Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers: Adjunct Program

Pages 155 - 162

https://doi.org/10.1145/2641248.2641356

Published: 13 September 2014 Publication History

Abstract

Physical contact has an important role in human well-being. In this paper, we present Hugginess, a concept of interactive system that encourages people to hug by augmenting this gesture with digital information exchange. As a proof of concept, we developed two t-shirts that reciprocally send information to the hugged person through the conductive fabric.

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