Connexus: A Communal Interface

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Connexus: A Communal Interface

人在相互溝通的過程中包含了言語、肢體、眼神交流和碰觸等等許多的形式，但現今的應用或是研究大多注重於文字或是聲音的留存，但表達感情最重要的肢體和碰觸等卻沒有加以深入。一方面是這樣的動作難以記錄和區分，另一方面是難以量化。而此研究是以人在日常生活中的非言語的細小動作做為出發點，將小動作 記錄下來並使之能夠互動溝通。
研究中將非言語的肢體實作在手錶上。當敲擊手錶的表面時即是送出訊息，可單純的送出一個提示也可以是心跳數。當接收者收到時手錶的表面會發亮，這時接收者再透過用手滑過手錶表面的方式來回應傳訊者。
http://www.paulos.net/research/intel/connexus/Scenario/scenario1.htm

Humans communicate and interact among each other in rich and complex ways. When co-located we adeptly
trade off between a wide range of cues, both verbal and nonverbal. However, when we examine the
technologically mediated communication tools we use when not co-located, we quickly see our information
channels restricted to primarily verbal channels such as text and speech. While there is emotional augmentation
such as emoticons for text messaging and timbre, pitch, intensity, and inflection for voice calls, there is a
need to explore nonverbal interfaces between non colocated people.

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