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HCI research is increasingly focused on how technologies can help parents understand children’s needs and state by enabling them to reflect on their children’s activities. Use of a digital family calendar could have great potential in helping facilitate this process. However, relatively few studies have been carried out on this topic. This study investigated (1) how parents reflect on children’s activities with a digital family calendar, (2) how parent-child interaction is like at the time of the reflection, and (3) how the parents’ reflection and the parent-child interaction change over time. A three-month research study was conducted involving nine Japanese families using a digital family scrapbook calendar to share past, current and future events. Based on the results, we have proposed several design suggestions for reflective use of family calendars.
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Maehigashi, A., Niida, S. (2020). Parents’ Reflection with a Digital Family Calendar: A Case of Using Scrapbook Calendars in Japanese Families. In: Nolte, A., Alvarez, C., Hishiyama, R., Chounta, IA., Rodríguez-Triana, M., Inoue, T. (eds) Collaboration Technologies and Social Computing . CollabTech 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12324. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58157-2_14
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