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SocialStools: A Playful, Socio-Spatial Interface for Fostering Togetherness Across Strangers

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CHI EA '22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts

Article No.: 173, Pages 1 - 5

https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3519877

Published: 28 April 2022 Publication History

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Leveraging the human propensity for embodied interaction, SocialStools is a socio-spatial interface that facilitates playful social interactions across strangers in a physical space, fostering togetherness. Three stools on caster wheels generate sound and image around them in response to sitting on them, and moving and rotating relative to each other. In this paper, we identify the challenges of stranger interactions, introduce our cyber-physical system, and describe and demonstrate three interaction situations: sitting, moving closer and away from each other, and rotating to face or turn away from each other. By translating these interactions into visual and auditory effects, we explore the possibilities of merging the socio-physical world with a digital system to create unique social affordances for interpersonal interactions that foster togetherness. Our demonstration transforms three strangers into a trio of sound-and-image makers interacting through creative, embodied play.

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Andrei ABilius LVatavu R(2024)Take a Seat, Make a Gesture: Charting User Preferences for On-Chair and From-Chair Gesture InputProceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613904.3642028(1-17)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613904.3642028

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CHI EA '22: Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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ISBN:9781450391566

DOI:10.1145/3491101

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Toyota Research Institute, USA

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Andrei ABilius LVatavu R(2024)Take a Seat, Make a Gesture: Charting User Preferences for On-Chair and From-Chair Gesture InputProceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613904.3642028(1-17)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
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