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Slow messaging: intimate communication for couples living at a distance

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DPPI '07: Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Designing pleasurable products and interfaces

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1314161.1314204

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Technology increasingly mediates communication between people, particularly when they live at a distance. For couples in long-distance relationships, these technologies are a primary means of exchanging not only information but also emotions. This one-year project explores the communication needs of couples living at a distance to design an intimate and emotional means of interaction specifically for this context. A user-centered design process revealed opportunities for interactions that show time and effort or those that connect people through a shared sense of place. These observed needs were used to develop concepts which where validated by representative users.

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DOI:10.1145/1314161

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