Stress outsourced: A haptic social network via crowdsourcing

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2439-2448

  Chung, Keywon ^a   Chi, Pei Yu ^a   Chiu, Carnaven ^b   Xiao, Xiao ^c  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective communication; Crowdsourcing; Haptic social network; Privacy model; Social network; Tangible interface; Touch therapy; Ubiquitous computing; Wearable computing

Indexed keywords

AFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION; CROWDSOURCING; HAPTIC SOCIAL NETWORK; PRIVACY MODEL; SOCIAL NETWORK; TANGIBLE INTERFACE; TOUCH THERAPY; WEARABLE COMPUTING;

ABSTRACTING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HAPTIC INTERFACES; WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 70349157137     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1520340.1520346     Document Type: Conference Paper

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