HeartChat: Heart Rate Augmented Mobile Chat to Support Empathy and Awareness
HeartChat: Heart Rate Augmented Mobile Chat to Support Empathy and Awareness
Mariam Hassib,Daniel Buschek,Paweł W. Woźniak,Florian Alt
2017 · DOI: 10.1145/3025453.3025758
International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · 132 Citations
TLDR
A mobile chat application, HeartChat, which integrates heart rate as a cue to increase awareness and empathy and was tested in a two week in-the-wild study with 14 participants and showed that HeartChat supports empathy between people.