  In the world where increasingly mobility and long-distance relationships with
family, friends and loved-ones became commonplace, there exists a gap in
intimate interpersonal communication mediated by technology. Considering the
advances in the field of mediation of relationships through technology, as well
as prevalence of use of jewelry as love-tokens for expressing a wish to be
remembered and to evoke the presence of the loved-one, developments in the new
field of computational jewelry offer some truly exciting possibilities. In this
paper we investigate the role that the jewelry-like form factor of prototypes
can play in the context of studying effects of computational jewelry in
mediating long-distance relationships.
