CHI '92 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Digital family portraits: supporting peace of mind for extended family members
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Age-old practices in the 'new world': a study of gift-giving between teenage mobile phone users
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
LumiTouch: an emotional communication device
CHI '01 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Using the Experience Sampling Method to Evaluate Ubicomp Applications
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Communicating intimacy one bit at a time
CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
inTouch: a medium for haptic interpersonal communication
CHI EA '97 CHI '97 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Lover's cups: drinking interfaces as new communication channels
CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Multidimensional tactons for non-visual information presentation in mobile devices
Proceedings of the 8th conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services
SyncDecor: appliances for sharing mutual awareness between lovers separated by distance
CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
From awareness to repartee: sharing location within social groups
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Bridging gaps: affective communication in long distance relationships
CHI '08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Peopletones: a system for the detection and notification of buddy proximity on mobile phones
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
Sharing empty moments: design for remote couples
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Understanding family communication across time zones
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Engaging the Periphery for Visual Communication on Mobile Phones
HICSS '10 Proceedings of the 2010 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Locating family values: a field trial of the whereabouts clock
UbiComp '07 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Ubiquitous computing
Social disclosure of place: from location technology to communication practices
PERVASIVE'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Pervasive Computing
Place-Its: a study of location-based reminders on mobile phones
UbiComp'05 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Ubiquitous Computing
UbiComp'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Ubiquitous Computing
Practical metropolitan-scale positioning for GSM phones
UbiComp'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Ubiquitous Computing
Deliberation for intuition: a framework for energy-efficient trip detection on cellular phones
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Ubiquitous computing
The mismeasurement of privacy: using contextual integrity to reconsider privacy in HCI
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Feelybean: communicating touch over distance
CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Expanding the design space for intimacy: supporting mutual reflection for local partners
Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Peek: context sharing on request with notifications
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work companion
The roles of touch during phone conversations: long-distance couples' use of POKE in their homes
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Exploring the diversity of families: designing technologies for the contemporary family life
CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Fine-grained sharing of sensed physical activity: a value sensitive approach
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international joint conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing
You are not alone online: a case study of a long distance romantic relationship online community
OCSC'13 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Online Communities and Social Computing
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Long-distance couples face considerable communication challenges in their relationships. Unlike collocated couples, long-distance couples lack awareness cues associated with physical proximity and must use technologies such as SMS or telephony to stay in sync. We posit that long-distance couples have needs that are not met by prevailing communication technologies, which require explicit action from the sender as well as the receiver. We built CoupleVIBE to explore the properties of an implicit messaging channel and observe how couples would use such a technology. CoupleVIBE is a mobile application that automatically pushes a user's location-information to her partner's mobile phone via vibrotactile cues. We present qualitative results of a four-week user study, studying how seven couples used CoupleVIBE. A key result is that CoupleVIBE's implicit communication modality operated as a foundation that helps keep couples in sync, with other modalities being brought into play when further interaction was needed.