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Communication is key to a romantic relationship — and an app developed by a Carnegie Mellon alumna is helping couples to communicate better by using their heart rate and animated otters. Fannie Liu is part of a team from Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Washington and Snap, which owns
Washington [US], May 27 (ANI): Even though people stayed in touch during the pandemic's stay-at-home orders and social distancing, it was easy to feel out of touch with loved ones. Hence, CMU, Snap researchers recently developed a smartwatch app that uses heart rate to communicate between couples.
A team from Carnegie Mellon University, Snap and the University of Washington built Significant Otter, an app designed primarily for smart watches that allows couples to communicate with each other based on their sensed heart rate. The team presented their work this month at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) Conference.