Paper Info
Title
Together Together: Combining Shared and Separate Activities in Designing Technology for Family Life
Abstract
There is a growing concern that the pervasive individualized, digital means for connecting with others is challenging family togetherness, such as Sherry Turkle expresses it in her book entitled "Alone Together". As a response to this concern, we explore a new direction for designing technologies supporting families being 'Together Together' through using separate activities as drivers for shared activities in designing for domestic family life. The direction derives from the use of Participatory Design techniques, engaging six families in a series of in-situ workshops, envisioning how technology can support shared domestic family experiences. We explore this design space through the design of the STORIES prototype and we present the results from in-situ deployments of the STORIES prototype. We conclude that designing for a combination of separate and shared family activities is a promising approach in designing for Family Togetherness.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3311927.3323141
Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
Keywords
Field
DocType
Design, Family Connectedness, Family Life, Family Togetherness, Home, Storytelling
Computer science,Human–computer interaction,Multimedia
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-6690-8
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Peter Knøsgaard Christensen100.34
Christoffer Øland Skovgaard200.68
Marianne Graves Petersen358952.95