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Anchor: connecting sailors to home

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Jacob Farny,

Matthew Jennex,

Rebekah Olsen,

Melissa RodriguezAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '12: CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 1267 - 1272

https://doi.org/10.1145/2212776.2212438

Published: 05 May 2012 Publication History

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Maintaining a connection to home is difficult for deployed sailors in the US Navy. At sea, data transfer and personal privacy are limited, the consequences of which are detrimental to the romantic relationships of sailors with stateside partners. We propose Anchor, a tablet application that uses asynchronous messages to synthesize synchronous communication when there is no data transfer. Anchor helps sailors and their romantic partners communicate using media-rich messages, and it creates a connection to home no matter where service takes them.

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Anchor: connecting sailors to home
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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CHI EA '12: CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

May 2012

2864 pages

ISBN:9781450310161

DOI:10.1145/2212776

General Chair:
Joseph A. Konstan
University of Minnesota
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Google
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Kristina Höök
Mobile Life at KTH

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Kelly RCheng YMcKay DWadley GBuchanan GKitamura YQuigley AIsbister KIgarashi TBjørn PDrucker S(2021)“It’s About Missing Much More Than the People”: How Students use Digital Technologies to Alleviate HomesicknessProceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3411764.3445362(1-17)Online publication date: 6-May-2021
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Kučera JScott JLindley SOlivier PKitamura YQuigley AIsbister KIgarashi TBjørn PDrucker S(2021)Bedtime WindowProceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3411764.3445121(1-12)Online publication date: 6-May-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411764.3445121
Li HHäkkilä JVäänänen KBailie LOliver N(2018)Review of unconventional user interfaces for emotional communication between long-distance partnersProceedings of the 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services10.1145/3229434.3229467(1-10)Online publication date: 3-Sep-2018
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