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A Digital Photography Framework Enabling Affective Awareness in Home Communication (2000)
| Venue: | In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing HUC ’99 |
| Citations: | 9 - 1 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Liechti00adigital,
author = {Olivier Liechti and Tadao Ichikawa},
title = {A Digital Photography Framework Enabling Affective Awareness in Home Communication},
booktitle = {In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing HUC ’99},
year = {2000},
pages = {6--24}
}
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Abstract
By transforming the personal computer into a communication appliance, the Internet has initiated the true home computing revolution. As a result, Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) technologies are increasingly used in domestic settings, and are changing the way people keep in touch with their relatives and friends. This article first looks at how CMC tools are currently used in the home, and points at some of their benefits and limitations. Most of these tools support explicit interpersonal communication, by providing a new medium for sustaining conversations. The need for tools supporting implicit interaction between users, in more natural and effortless ways, is then argued for. The idea of affective awareness is introduced as a general sense of being in touch with one's family and friends. Finally, the KAN-G framework, which enables affective awareness through the exchange of digital photographs, is described. Various components, which make the capture, distribution, observation...
Keyphrases
home communication affective awareness domestic setting cmc tool general sense way people personal computer interpersonal communication effortless way various component digital photograph implicit interaction communication appliance tool support new medium true home computer mediated communication kan-g framework
