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Make and connect: enabling people to connect through their things

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OzCHI '17: Proceedings of the 29th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3152771.3156182

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Staying connected is vital to maintaining good relationships, yet feelings of disconnection or isolation distance, time differences, or simply busy lives. Everyday interactions, family rituals and habits are often lost, in spite of the pervasiveness of smart-phones and personal multi-purpose devices. This project explores novel ways of connecting people over distance through smart objects designed to facilitate routine activities. Our aim is to democratize the design and making of the Internet of Things, by researching and creating easy-to-use kit technologies. This will enable everybody to design and make networks of internet connected things and people to suit their own interest and needs, fostering new kinds of creative thinking, designing and connection. The project aims to connect families through their things to better enable social engagement and connectedness between generations, diaspora and for different cultures.

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Make and connect: enabling people to connect through their things
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. Interface design prototyping

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OzCHI '17: Proceedings of the 29th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction

November 2017

678 pages

ISBN:9781450353793

DOI:10.1145/3152771

Conference Chair:
Margot Brereton
Queensland University of Technology
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Alessandro Soro
Queensland University of Technology
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Dhaval Vyas
Queensland University of Technology
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Bernd Ploderer
Queensland University of Technology
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Ann Morrison
University of Southern Queensland
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Jenny Waycott
University of Melbourne
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Margot Brereton
Queensland University of Technology

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Sparrow LRogerson M(2023)Lessons from Homebrewed Hybridity: Designing Hybrid Digital Boardgames for Distanced PlayProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/36110227:CHI PLAY(45-72)Online publication date: 4-Oct-2023
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