Evaluation Of An Affective Wearable Tool For The Transmission Of Affection Gestures Between Geographically Separated Loved Ones

This paper presents the design, development and preliminary evaluation of an affective wearable device for the transmission of affection gestures between grandparents and grandchildren who are geographically separated. A preliminary evaluation of the device with 33 subjects showed that it is possible to evoke affection gestures. Moreover, such gestures of affection can be tuned in such a way to appear to be real, in order to allow a closer and constant relationship between geographically separated loved ones.