TY - CPAPER
KW - Connectedness
KW - Database
KW - Experience Design
KW - Relatedness
KW - Relatedness Technology
KW - Systematic Review
AU - Christiane Wenhart
AU - Ronda Ringfort-Felner
AU - Torben Wallbaum
AU - Maryam Amidi
AU - Ruben Albers
AU - Marc Hassenzahl
AB - Over the past decades, numerous concepts and prototypes for fostering emotional connections across distance (relatedness technologies) have been proposed. This has made it challenging for researchers and designers in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) to maintain a comprehensive overview and effectively build on previous work. To address this, we conducted a systematic literature search (PRISMA) and collected 241 concepts and prototypes (2010-2024). We organized this corpus according to key aspects: (1) target population, (2) theoretical grounding, (3) design, (4) evaluation, and (5) ethics. Based on this, we developed the “COmpendium of RElatedness Technologies” (CORE), an open-access, searchable online database that provides researchers and practitioners with a reliable repository to inform future work. In addition, we present a systematic review of the corpus, revealing that despite its long tradition work on relatedness technologies remains characterized by limited theoretical grounding, lack of robust empirical evidence of effects, and insufficient attention to ethical considerations.
BT - Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
CY - New York, NY, USA
DO - 10.1145/3706598.3714260
N2 - Over the past decades, numerous concepts and prototypes for fostering emotional connections across distance (relatedness technologies) have been proposed. This has made it challenging for researchers and designers in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) to maintain a comprehensive overview and effectively build on previous work. To address this, we conducted a systematic literature search (PRISMA) and collected 241 concepts and prototypes (2010-2024). We organized this corpus according to key aspects: (1) target population, (2) theoretical grounding, (3) design, (4) evaluation, and (5) ethics. Based on this, we developed the “COmpendium of RElatedness Technologies” (CORE), an open-access, searchable online database that provides researchers and practitioners with a reliable repository to inform future work. In addition, we present a systematic review of the corpus, revealing that despite its long tradition work on relatedness technologies remains characterized by limited theoretical grounding, lack of robust empirical evidence of effects, and insufficient attention to ethical considerations.
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
PP - New York, NY, USA
PY - 2025
SN - 9798400713941
T2 - Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
TI - Relatedness Technologies: An Online Compendium and Systematic Review
UR - https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3714260
ER -