Partners share how they are feeling by setting their Emoto--an evocative photo that represents and evokes their current emotional state. They can also choose to link particular messages to Emotos in order to contextualize individual communications. Emotos give partners a chance to reflect on their feelings and to communicate their experiences to their partners with greater clarity, richness, and nuance. The app also provides a window into your partners current lived experience by showing you their time and weather.
We created this app as a part of the Understanding Users class at Stanford (CS 337u), and we will be running a usability study on it for the next two weeks. We hope that you will download the app and try using it in the context of your long distance relationship so that we can learn what works and what doesnt. In the context of this study, our app is only available in iOS. This means that in order to use it, both you and your partner must have iPhones.