Social Essence

As remote work and therefore remote collaboration has become increasingly relevant, social presence within this context has followed. During the project, it was found that existing research designs are not yet adopted in commercial products due to their high complexity and threshold, which are too high for their average use case.

The prototype demonstrates a set of different ways to design for low-threshold social presence. Specifically, this prototype uses abstract visualizations of motion captured hands and a haptic pen to let users experience an increased level of communication and social presence.