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WatchMe: Communication and Awareness Between Members of a Closely-Knit Group

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WatchMe is a personal communicator with context awareness in a wristwatch form; it is meant to keep intimate friends and family always connected via awareness cues and text, voice instant message, or synchronous voice connectivity. Sensors worn with the watch track location (via GPS), acceleration, and speech activity; this is classified and conveyed to the other party, where it appears in iconic form on the watch face. When a remote person with whom this information is shared examines it, their face appears on the watch of the person being checked on. The working prototype was used as the focus of interviews to gauge the desirability of such a device.

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    Natalia Marmasse, Chris Schmandt & David Spectre

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  1. Computing Department, InfoLab21, Lancaster University, LA1 4WA, Lancaster, UK

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  2. GVU Center & School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Elizabeth D. Mynatt

  3. Department of Information Sciences, Ochanomizu University, 2-1-1 Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, 112-8610, Tokyo, Japan

    Itiro Siio

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Marmasse, N., Schmandt, C., Spectre, D. (2004). WatchMe: Communication and Awareness Between Members of a Closely-Knit Group. In: Davies, N., Mynatt, E.D., Siio, I. (eds) UbiComp 2004: Ubiquitous Computing. UbiComp 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3205. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30119-6_13

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