{"id":259716,"date":"2021-05-26T22:56:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T19:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/significant-otter-helps-couples-communicate-from-the-heart\/"},"modified":"2021-05-26T22:56:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T19:56:10","slug":"significant-otter-helps-couples-communicate-from-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/significant-otter-helps-couples-communicate-from-the-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"#Significant Otter helps couples communicate from the heart"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Significant Otter helps couples communicate from the heart<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n Sensed states available from Significant Otter. Credit: Significant Otter
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Even though people stayed in touch during the pandemic’s stay-at-home orders and social<\/a> distancing, it was easy to feel out of touch with loved ones.<\/p>\n

Technology<\/a> and the internet have expanded the way humans communicate and added much to that communication\u2014think emojis, GIFs and memes. But they can still fall short of being physically with someone.<\/p>\n

“Our social cues are limited online,” said Fannie Liu, a research scientist at Snap Inc. who earned her Ph.D. from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute in Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science<\/a>. “We’re exploring a new way to support digital connection through a deeper and more internal cue.”<\/p>\n

Liu was part of a team from CMU, Snap and the University of Washington that built Significant Otter, an app<\/a> designed primarily for smart watches that allows couples to communicate with each other based on their sensed heart rate. The team presented their work this month at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) Conference.<\/p>\n

As the app’s name suggests, it uses otters to communicate. The app allows couples to send animated otters to one another that represent emotions and activities. For example, otters can be sad, excited, calm or angry, or they can be working, exercising, eating or tired. The app senses a person’s heartrate and then suggests otters with the emotion or activity that may correspond to it. A fast heartrate could prompt the app to suggest an excited or angry otter, or an otter that is exercising or eating.<\/p>\n


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