The Picture Box is designed for iconic communication between children and career parents. They first made nine sketches on a card which will become the "vocabulary" in their communication. The child has this card in the Picture Box at home and the parent has a picture copy in their smart phone. When the child can push the button on the box to send a signal of missing to the parent. The parent enters an iconic message on her/his smart phone with their iconic vocabulary.
Reference: Eva Lenz, Marc Hassenzahl, Wasili Adamow, Patrick Beedgen, Kirstin Kohler, Thies Schneider. 2016. Four Stories About Feeling Close Over A Distance. In Proceedings of the TEI '16: Tenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. 494-499.
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