Home-school technologies: Considering the family

Fraser, K.; Rodden, T.; O'Malley, C.

Abstract

Research has focused on building technologies to support children in their transitions between home and school [9] without a developed sense of how individual families react to such technologies. We interviewed three different families about their reactions to ubiquitous computing technologies designed to support home-school transitions. We found that families were willing to use such technologies to share information among themselves, but that mechanisms for filtering this information would be a challenge for designers. Further, families were reluctant to share information with outsiders, such as teachers. We will discuss the implications of these findings for both future technologies, and further research into their design.

Citation

Fraser, K., Rodden, T., & O'Malley, C. (2006, December). Home-school technologies: Considering the family. Presented at 2006 Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC '06; Tampere; Finland

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: 2006 Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC '06; Tampere; Finland
• Publication Date: 2006
• Deposit Date: Aug 15, 2018
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Volume: 2006
• Pages: 153-156
• Book Title: Proceeding of the 2006 Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC '06
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/1139073.1139111
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1144605