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Mais um conceito (lembram-se dos Love Jackets & Hug Jackets?) bem interessante. Este premite a casais, familiares, amigos encurtar distâncias: F+R Hugs é uma camisola de Lycra com sensores embebidos que nos permite sentir os abraços; através da rede de comunicações móveis, a Hug Shirt transmite a batida cardíaca, o toque e a temperatura corporal em tempo real, produzindo assim sensações semelhantes a um abraço real.

Humans are made of emotions and it is necessary to construct technology able to fulfill our emotional needs and express the communicative function of human interaction. Interfaces and systems must be intuitive, natural, and compatible with our emotional status. Combining emotion and technology should be part of every design process. An increasing mobility of humans throughout the globe, due to business or study reasons, has brought family members to spend most of their time apart from each other. F+R Hugs could fill this gap. Humans need physical contact with each other. An infant may sink into depression and die without the closeness of her mother’s body (studies refer of increased sudden infant death syndrome if children are not being hugged during the first 40 days of life). Adults, especially elderly people living far away from their families, deprived of tactile contact for a long period of time will tell you just how depressing it feels. A hug, a handshake, a pat on the back, and a kiss are all very important and bring us close to others, reconnect us to our memories and accentuates our present perceptions. There is an increasing need of human contact, not only for fun and pleasure, but also for improving healthcare and solve learning disabilities, that finally can be fulfilled through F+R Hugs.

O F+R Hugs é uma criação dos designers Francesca Rosella e Ryan Genz e é produzido pela CuteCircuit (uma empresa fundada pela Francesca e pelo Ryan).

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