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RainSense: exploring the concept of a sense for weather awareness

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MobileHCI '18: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Adjunct

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The amplification of human senses has been in the focus of contemporary research for the past decades. Apart from the replication of human organs, the functionality of the human body has been enhanced. While many approaches aim to augment existing sensory channels, our research purpose is to explore the creation of a new sense, namely a sense for weather awareness. For this, we present our concept which is based on the presentation of thermal stimuli. Hence, we initially explored the perception and suitability of thermal feedback stimuli to communicate weather information, and particularly precipitation in an experiment comprising 16 participants. From the qualitative and quantitative results we derive important findings helping us to advance the realization of our concept in future research involving a field study to further evaluate the creation of a sense for weather awareness.

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Peiris RFeng YChan LMinamizawa KBrewster SFitzpatrick GCox AKostakos V(2019)ThermalBraceletProceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3290605.3300400(1-11)Online publication date: 2-May-2019
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Haliburton LSchött SHirsch LWelsch RSchmidt A(2023)Feeling the Temperature of the RoomProceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies10.1145/35808207:1(1-21)Online publication date: 28-Mar-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3580820
Peiris RFeng YChan LMinamizawa KBrewster SFitzpatrick GCox AKostakos V(2019)ThermalBraceletProceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3290605.3300400(1-11)Online publication date: 2-May-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3290605.3300400

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