Perceptions of Delayed Instant Messages in Computer-Mediated Communication of Romantic Relations

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Author
Pei-Yun Tu, Chien-Wen Yuan, Hao-Chuan Wang

Year
2016, my first year of master's degree.

Process
Diary Study → Interview

Conference Paper
Pei-Yun Tu, Chien-Wen Yuan, Hao-Chuan Wang: Do You Think What I Think: Perceptions of Delayed Instant Messages in Computer-Mediated Communication of Romantic Relations. Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2018.

Introduction
In romantic relationships, Instant Messaging (IM) can serve as a communication channel to maintain a sense of mutual presence and relational closeness when being physically separated. However, IM is asynchronous by design. There can exist time delay for people to receive and reply to incoming messages, which may violate romantic partner’s mutual expectation. Limited understanding is available around how unintended and intended delays affect the relationship of romantic partners. This work examines how romantic partners grow, perceive, and use mutual knowledge about each other in delayed IM to resolve the expectancy violation. We conducted a 7-day diary study on 16 pairs of romantic couples and used the diary entries as probes for post-study one-on-one interviews. Our findings show that couples employ different strategies of information grounding to parse and resolve delayed IM. Based on these findings, we propose several theoretical and practical implications.
Do You Think What I Think: Perceptions of Delayed Instant Messages in Computer-Mediated Communication of Romantic Relations.pdf

Co-Viewing Room

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Figure1. Three different content sharing methods: whole video sharing, video clips sharing and snapshots.

Author
Pei-Yun Tu, Mei-Ling Chen, Chi-Lan Yang, Hao-Chuan Wang

Year
2016, my first year of master's degree.

Process
Interview → Ideation → Design and Prototyping → Lab Experiment → Survey and Interview

Conference Paper
Pei-Yun Tu, Mei-Ling Chen, Chi-Lan Yang, Hao-Chuan Wang: Co-Viewing Room: Mobile TV Content Sharing in Social Chat. Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Late-Breaking Work (CHI LBW) 2016.

Introduction
TV watching is a common leisure activity, and people often use the opportunity of TV watching to socialize with other co-watchers. However, when potential TV co-watchers like friends or family members are distributed in different locations, the social function of TV watching is disrupted. In this paper, we present a mobile TV content sharing system called Co-Viewing Room, which enables distributed users to share three types of TV content, including whole video sharing, video clips sharing and snapshots sharing during an online chat. We evaluated the system by comparing the influence of the three types of content sharing on users' experience and social interactions. Our results showed that people were satisfied with remote TV sharing support, and tended to be more responsive to lightweight shared content like snapshots and video clips. Also, people regarded snapshots sharing as a useful support for efficient social chat.
Two major contributions of this work are highlighted: A) A mobile TV content sharing system that allows TV sharing during a social chat is designed and built. B) We simulate the remote TV co-watching scenario in a lab study to uncover how three different content sharing methods affect the experience and interactions between co-viewers of the chat.
Co-Viewing Room: Mobile TV Content Sharing in Social Chat.pdf

GUAVAMAP

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Figure1. The interface of the platform.

Author
Pei-Yun Tu, Meng-Yun Liao, Pei-Yi Hsu, Hui-Chia Yang, Chao-Hung Wang

Year
2015, my senior year.

Process
Ideation → Observation → Survey → Design and Prototyping → Usability Test and Interview → Modifying → Interview

Introduction
A web-based mobile platform called GUAVAMAP is designed for young patients and their family who are suffering from physiological or psychological harm and long-term treatment. We do a survey first and interviewed 9 patients to realize the pilgrimage of them and presented our design based on their difficulty and expectation to provide them with more medical resources and mental support.
GUAVAMAP(Chinese).pdf

Design
GUAVAMAP could solve the problems of registration, medication, and assistive device, strengthen the connection between patients and their family, and facilitate them to interact with others.

-	Make Connection In the interview, their voice betrayed their loneliness and hopelessness when telling their stories, they told us they are willing to share their experience and help those in need. Therefore, we build the platform to make connections between people from different stages (initial, treatment and recovery), enable them to share their stories and encourage each other. A participant told us, "Story is powerful! If it is possible to make his voice heard by those in need, it would be helpful."
-	Deliver Messages We observed that the patients are doubtful to the illness, they always want to learn more about it. Based on this, GUAVAMAP select related knowledge and information of talks and activities according to their illness, age, and location to face their fear with others together. "This integrated platform could deliver messages to those in need."
-	Assist in Medical Use Medication is complicated (e.g. some medicines are not allowed to be taken with other food, some patients are allergic to the specific drug), to misuse of drug, our platform supply additional information to span the gap on drug bags. Another concern is the timing of medication. Once medicine was delayed, the rest of the schedule may need to be adjusted, therefore an auto-adjust medication reminder was presented.
-	Connect to the Hospital The platform also provides one-click registration service by setting the default values according to history log and connect to the hospital server synchronously for OPD schedule tracking and prediction. It saves time for both patients and their companies.
-	Record The timing point of taking medicine and hospital visits would be recorded in database for the users, their doctors and family to review, an interviewee said, "Illness is not only about me, but a family", their family may not company with them all the time; however they can follow the patients without any missing or delay by this mechanism.
-	Reuse Assistive Device In addition to the medical expenses, some patients need to pay for the assistive devices such as care beds or wheelchairs, it may be a burden for them; however they may not utilize these after recovering. We establish the communication channels to match demander and supplier. And our interviewees also gave us positive feedback on this service.

Honors and Awards

-	Outstanding Award of 1st Trans Action Award 2015, Industrial Development Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs (IDB/MOEA)
-	Selected Exhibitor of Young Designers' Exhibition (YODEX) 2015, Taipei, Taiwan
-	Honorable Mention of Creative Design Contest 2015, College of Engineering, National Tsing Hua University

Painting in the Air

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Figure1. The interface of mobile

Figure2. The interface of computer

Author
Pei-Yun Tu, Mao-Yao Tien, Ren-Chen Xiao, Yi-Hsuan Chen, Kuan-Yu Lin, Ruen-Rone Lee

Year
2014, my senior year.

Process
Ideation → Design → Implementation → Field Observation and Interview

Conference Paper
Pei-Yun Tu, Mao-Yao Tien, Ren-Chen Xiao, Yi-Hsuan Chen, Kuan-Yu Lin, Ruen-Rone Lee: The Design and Implementation of Embodied Interactive Mobile Painting System. TAIwan Computer-Human Interaction Workshop (TAICHI) 2015.

Introduction
Stepping into the children's painting classroom, we observed that each child was holding their crayon and paper, drawing alone on their own seat. However, their creativity and interaction should not limit to the physical canvas and painter. To broke through the barrier, we designed and built a embodied interactive mobile painting system called Painting in the Air, which enables children to add their voice and action as materials into the painting and enjoy drawing together by waving the mobile in the air. Not only a painting, it serves as a creation of imagination. By collaborating with the kindergartens, we evaluated the users' experience of the system in a field study. The result showed it is more attractive to the little child though they do not make use of the system as proficiently as senior one, they enjoy painting in the air.
Two major contributions of this work are highlighted: A) A embodied interactive mobile painting system that allows children paint in the air together on a screen with multimedia was presented. B) A field study done in the kindergartens showed the users' experience of the system.
The Design and Implementation of Embodied Interactive Mobile Painting System(Chinese).pdf

Honors and Awards

-	First Prize of Computer Science Senior Project Contest 2014, Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University
-	Best Students Award of Mobileheroes Contest 2014 - The User Experience Design of Smart Wearable Devices, Industrial Development Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs (IDB/MOEA)
-	First Place of International ICT Innovation Services Contest 2014, Industrial Development Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs (IDB/MOEA), Ministry of Education (MOE), Chinese Society of Information Management (CSIM)
-	Golden Prize of 4C Digital Design Awards 2014, Industrial Development Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs (IDB/MOEA)
-	Company Recommendation Award-Best Work of 4C Digital Design Awards 2014, Industrial Development Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs (IDB/MOEA)
-	Most Potential of 4C Digital Design Awards 2014, Industrial Development Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs (IDB/MOEA)
-	Selected Exhibitor of Electronics Manufacturing Exposition (eMEX) 2014, Suzhou, China

Cubit

Author
Pei-Yin Chou, Jo-Yu Lo, Wei-Wei Tseng, Pei-Yun Tu

Year
2014, my senior year.

Process
Brainstorming → Idea → Design → Implementation

Introduction
Cubit is a mobile puzzle game we created by Unity though its rule is simple, it is challenging. From idea, implementation to creation all are from our team. The basic concept is from Rubik's Cube, the terrain is like a huge Rubik's Cube with different stacks of fixed cubes on each plane. To win the game, players have to push the designated little cube on terrain to the destination in the limited period. The core of the game is when the cube is pushed to the boundary of the plane, the plane will also turn over with the cube, therefore, it is interesting for players to think how to turn the terrain and build a path to the goal. In addition, we designed barrier, treasures, properties and battle mode to make it more fun.