Title
FamiLync: facilitating participatory parental mediation of adolescents' smartphone use
Abstract
We consider participatory parental mediation in which children engage with their parents in activities that encourage both parents and children to participate in co-learning of digital media use. To this end, we developed FamiLync, a mobile service that treats use-limiting as a family activity and provides the family with a virtual public space to foster social awareness and improve self-regulation. A three-week user study conducted with twelve families in Korea (17 parents and 18 teenagers) showed that FamiLync improves mutual understanding of usage behavior, thereby providing common grounds for parental mediation. Further, parents actively participated in use-limiting with their children, which significantly increased the children's desire to participate. As a consequence, parental mediation methods and parent-child interaction in relation to smartphone usage changed appreciably, and the participants smartphone usage amount significantly decreased.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2750858.2804283
ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Adolescents' smartphone overuse, parental mediation, participatory learning
Public space,Computer science,Social consciousness,Mobile service,Participatory learning,Mediation (Marxist theory and media studies),Citizen journalism,Digital media,Multimedia,Applied psychology
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
13
0.70
14
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Minsam Ko110910.17
Seung-Woo Choi2323.73
Subin Yang3803.93
Joonwon Lee4143890.35
Uichin Lee52029125.51