SoTong: An Aware System of Relation Oriented Communication for Enhancing Family Relationship

Abstract

In this paper we propose "SoTong" system for enhancing family relationship with relation oriented communication. In the relation oriented communications, we focus on the relationship by representation and promotion of relations together with awareness of other's situation for the connectedness and the coexistence. The system captures and analyzes communication channels among modern families to extract the relationship and the situation of families for awareness. From the results of the analysis, the system displays context-representative symbols with userpsilas avatar and relation-representative geometry on a same display. The communication information is decomposed into the quantitative frequency and the qualitative feeling. For the information of relation oriented communication, we proposed two matrices for the status of the communication and RDF description for the status of the family members as avatars and the information will be used for generation of message for a promotion of intimate relation and further context-aware services.