Touchy-Feely: Mobile Phone Sends
Emoticons, Emotions !
A common complaint about our phone-
centric modern communications is that we
no longer share real, genuine emotion with
one another. Designers Kiki Tang and Dan
iel Yoon want to put the emotions back into
our mobile conversations with the Blackberry
Empathy, a concept phone that would
combine regular text-based communications
with human emotions.
Along with the expected phone component
of this communication system, there is an
accompanying “biometrics ring” that takes
data on the wearer’s mood and emotional
well-being. During a conversation, one user
would be able to see the other’s emotional
state.
