Computer Supported Cooperative Work
DIS '04 Proceedings of the 5th conference on Designing interactive systems: processes, practices, methods, and techniques
Mediating intimacy: designing technologies to support strong-tie relationships
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Communicating intimacy one bit at a time
CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Negotiating presence-in-absence: contact, content and context
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Understanding heart rate sharing: towards unpacking physiosocial space
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
All You Need is Love: Current Strategies of Mediating Intimate Relationships through Technology
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
How affective technologies can influence intimate interactions and improve social connectedness
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
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Presence-in-absence is a subjective feeling of a significant other when he or she is not physically co-present and several emerging technologies increasingly aim to support this feeling of presence. However, no established framework for designing presence-in-absence technologies exists. We report on the design and evaluation of two novel technologies for supporting the experience of an absent significant other being present i.e. presence-in-absence. On the basis of a longitudinal field study of communication in romantic relationships, we constructed two technology sketches with the purpose of supporting presence-in-absence by employing graphical code languages: the Cube and the Picture Frame. The results of a subsequent evaluation involving potential users potentially inform the design of future presence-in-absence technologies.