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Summary
Maintaining a connection to home is difficult for deployed sailors in the U.S. Navy. At sea, data transfer and personal privacy are limited, the consequences of which are detrimental to the romantic relationships of sailors with stateside partners. We propose Anchor, a tablet application that uses asynchronous messages to synthesize synchronous communication when there is no data transfer. Anchor helps sailors and their romantic partners communicate using media-rich messages, and it creates a connection to home no matter where service takes them.
U022016
Citation
Farny, J., Jennex, M., Olsen, R., & Rodriguez, M. (2012, May). Anchor: connecting sailors to home. In CHI'12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1267-1272). ACM.