Four Stories About Feeling Close Over A Distance

Designing for technology-mediated relatedness (i.e., closeness, togetherness over a distance) is challenging. It requires a wellbeing-driven approach, which focuses on the subtle modulation of everyday practices and the creation of positive and meaningful experiences throughout the day. Based on an ongoing project, we tell four stories. Each is about a family, their particular relationships as well as current practices of feeling close, and our suggestion of how to inject new or improved ways of feeling close into their everyday life through technology. Each suggestion (i.e., concept) is used by the families at the moment.