Open AccessHigh5
Author(s) -
Yuhwan Kim,
SeungChul Lee,
Inseok Hwang,
Hyunho Ro,
Youngki Lee,
Miri Moon,
Junehwa Song
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
singapore management university institutional knowledge (ink) (singapore management university)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.1145/2632048.2632072
Subject(s) - smartwatch , casual , taboo , interpersonal communication , computer science , limiting , interpersonal relationship , internet privacy , wearable computer , key (lock) , everyday life , human–computer interaction , psychology , social psychology , sociology , engineering , computer security , mechanical engineering , materials science , anthropology , law , political science , composite material , embedded system
Interpersonal touch is our most primitive social language strongly governing our emotional well-being. Despite the positive implications of touch in many facets of our daily social interactions, we find wide-spread caution and taboo limiting touch-based interactions in workplace relationships that constitute a significant part of our daily social life. In this paper, we explore new opportunities for ubicomp technology to promote a new meme of casual and cheerful interpersonal touch such as high-fives towards facilitating vibrant workplace culture. Specifically, we propose High5, a mobile service with a smartwatch-style system to promote high-fives in everyday workplace interactions. We first present initial user motivation from semi-structured interviews regarding the potentially controversial idea of High5. We then present our smartwatch-style prototype to detect high-fives based on sensing electric skin potential levels. We demonstrate its key technical observation and performance evaluation.
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