This February, research fellow Dorothé Smit, and Master HCI students Marta Dziabiola, Robert Steiner, Ralf Vetter, and Daniel Nørskov, presented papers at TEI 2022, the internation conference on tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction.
Qude: Exploring Tactile Code in Long-Distance Relationships
Marta Dziabiola, Robert Steiner, Ralf Vetter, and Daniel Nørskov presented a work-in-progress paper Qude: Exploring Tactile Code in Long-Distance Relationships. Qude is a tool that supports people in long-distance relationships. It is a vibro-tactile wearable that enables a person to tap and send a rhythm to their partner; and a supporting app, through which users can assign meanings to the rhythms, thus creating an exclusive, tactile code.
Watch their teaser video here:
Hybrid Design Tools for Participatory, Embodied Sensemaking: An Applied Framework
On behalf of her co-authors, Bart Hengeveld, Martin Murer, and Manfred Tscheligi, Dorothé Smit presented the paper Hybrid Design Tools for Participatory, Embodied Sensemaking: An Applied Framework. In this paper, two hybrid design tools were analysed based on a framework for participatory, embodied sensemaking.
Watch the full presentation below.