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Supporting communication between parents and primary school children with the use of technology

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Nela Brown,

Tony StockmanAuthors Info & Claims

DESIRE '11: Procedings of the Second Conference on Creativity and Innovation in Design

Pages 423 - 424

https://doi.org/10.1145/2079216.2079274

Published: 19 October 2011 Publication History

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Growing workload of parents and increased amount of children's after-school activities leads to decreased amount of daily contact between family members. Linking the concepts of calm technology, attention theory and connectedness-oriented communication, this PhD research aims to investigate the type of communication parents and primary school children need in order to feel connected to each other and provide a design framework for supporting such communication with the use of technology.

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Supporting communication between parents and primary school children with the use of technology
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. Interface design prototyping

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DESIRE '11: Procedings of the Second Conference on Creativity and Innovation in Design

October 2011

358 pages

ISBN:9781450307543

DOI:10.1145/2079216

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Eindhoven University of Technology
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Iga NWakao AMatsumura KLopez-Gulliver RNoma HSchouten BMarkopoulos PToups Dugas PCairns PBekker T(2017)Improving Relationships between Parents and Children in Shopping Malls by Using a Digital Treasure Hunting GameExtended Abstracts Publication of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play10.1145/3130859.3131320(261-267)Online publication date: 15-Oct-2017
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Brown NStockman T(2013)Examining the use of thematic analysis as a tool for informing design of new family communication technologiesProceedings of the 27th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference10.5555/2578048.2578078(1-6)Online publication date: 9-Sep-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2578048.2578078

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