Gehna

Graceful Interactions and Social Support as Motivational Design Strategies to Encourage Women in Exercising

“…In addition, through the medium we selected, we uncovered the vast potential space of input interaction enabled by interactive jewelry [2]. The poetic qualities of jewelry, such as sensorial engagement, intimacy and symbolic meaning [42], might appeal to specific target groups and constitute an alternative to the rather sportive and masculine look and feel of current sports wearables [22,24].…”

“…Jewelry has a long history of being an explicit private and social communication tool [42] while still closely intertwining in our everyday lives like no other wearable does [2]. The emergence of wearable technologies has expanded the opportunities for jewelry to be a 'communication tool' by integrating a digital layer to the tangible object [38].…”

“…The emergence of wearable technologies has expanded the opportunities for jewelry to be a 'communication tool' by integrating a digital layer to the tangible object [38]. Interactive jewelry thus can dynamically react on wearers inputs following different interaction modalities (e.g., usually touching modalities such as fidgeting, hovering, sliding or, rotation elements) [2,38]. Since these types of interactions can still integrate the poetic qualities of jewelry, like sensorial engagement and intimacy (toward other people, places and self) [2], we highlight the potential of interactive jewelry to integrate social support for exercise engagement among women, when aiming for qualitative interactions.…”

BLInG: Beads-Laden Interactive Garment

“…The StoryBeads [16], one of the early studies, introduced eBeads actuating audio based on the embedded RFID tag. Gehna [2] was an outstanding work investigating the input modality of digital jewelry but did not explore the potential as an output device. Snowflakes [5] adopted modularity and demonstrated multiple input/output functionalities, accompanied by size constraints.…”

Exploring the Design Space of Badge Based Input

“…They follow it by highlighting and proposing directions for technical features, use of material and interacting modalities that could be applied in the development of the future computational jewellery devices. In Gehna [17], Arora et al explore the idea of jewellery-based input by creating a taxonomy of jewellery design and augmenting a set of different jewellery artifacts. Our work is similar because it explores wearable-based input but we focus on wearables having a badge-based form factor and which are worn on clothing using some kind of attachment.…”