https://github.com/derlin/huggiandroid

Android application for the Hugginess project
https://github.com/derlin/huggiandroid

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Android application for the Hugginess project

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/derlin/huggiandroid
• Owner: derlin
• Created: 2014-11-27T06:26:18.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-01-29T11:59:54.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-13T14:43:40.153Z (about 1 year ago)
• Language: Java
• Size: 594 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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# huggiAndroid

Android application for the Hugginess project.

### What is Hugginess

Physical contact has an important role in human well-being. Hugginess is a concept of interactive system that encourages people to hug by augmenting this gesture with digital information

exchange. 

The idea is to develop smart t-shirts able to detect, through conductive fibers and pressure detectors, when a hug occurs and to exchange some piece of information. 

The t-shirts should alors be able to communicate with an app in the user's smartphone using a bluetooth connection.

Since the objective of Hugginess is promoting physical touch, we strived to build a system that reflects the user’s need of physical contact. While existing projects that exchange information with a handshaking rely onwireless communication, we designed smart t-shirts that need physical contact in order to communicate properly. Moreover, Hugginess t-shirts can modulate the amount of information exchanged according to the length of the hug, but also to the social closeness of hugged person. 

 

### What is this project

This project represents the first version of an Android application able to communicate with a _Huggi-Shirt_. 

The interface of the _Huggi-Shirt_ consists of an [Arduino LilyPad](http://arduino.cc/en/Main/arduinoBoardLilyPad) as well as a [BlueSMIRF silver Bluetooth module](https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12577).

This application is currently quite simple. It provides a specific bluetooth service as well as a sample application interface. The functionalities are:

* communication with the t-shirt

* storage of the hugs into a local database

* a terminal view, mostly for debugging

* a display of the list of hugs

* a "statistics" view, with the total number of hugs and the top three huggers

* some basic settings to configure the t-shirt

*  ...

More information to come...