Title
BreatheWithMe: Exploring Visual and Vibrotactile Displays for Social Breath Awareness during Colocated, Collaborative Tasks
Author
El Ali, Abdallah (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI))
Stepanova, Ekaterina R. (Simon Fraser University)
Palande, Shalvi (University of Twente)
Mader, Angelika (University of Twente)
Cesar, Pablo (TU Delft Multimedia Computing; Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)) 
Jansen, K.M.B. (TU Delft Emerging Materials)
Date
2023
Abstract
Sharing breathing signals has the capacity to provide insights into hidden experiences and enhance interpersonal communication. However, it remains unclear how the modality of breath signals (visual, haptic) is socially interpreted during collaborative tasks. In this mixed-methods study, we design and evaluate BreatheWithMe, a prototype for real-time sharing and receiving of breathing signals through visual, vibrotactile, or visual-vibrotactile modalities. In a within-subjects study (15 pairs), we investigated the effects of modality on breathing synchrony, social presence, and overall user experience. Key findings showed: (a) there were no significant effects of visualization modality on breathing synchrony, only on deliberate music-driven synchronization; (b) visual modality was preferred over vibrotactile feedback, despite no differences across social presence dimensions; (c) BreatheWithMe was perceived to be an insightful window into others, however included data exposure and social acceptability concerns. We contribute insights into the design of multi-modal real-time breathing visualization systems for colocated, collaborative tasks.
Subject
awareness
Breathing
collaborative
dyadic
haptics
LED
mutltimodal
respiration
social interactions
visual
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3585589
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Embargo date
2023-10-19
ISBN
978-1-4503-9422-2
Source
CHI 2023 - Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Event
2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023-04-23 → 2023-04-28, Congress Center Hamburg (CCH), Hamburg, Germany
Series
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
Bibliographical note
Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.
Part of collection
Institutional Repository
Document type
conference paper
Rights
© 2023 Abdallah El Ali, Ekaterina R. Stepanova, Shalvi Palande, Angelika Mader, Pablo Cesar, K.M.B. Jansen