Admixed Portrait: Design Intervention to Prompt Reflection on Being Online as a New Parent

Trujillo-Pisanty, Diego; Durrant, Abigail; Martindale, Sarah; James, Stuart; Collomosse, John

Abstract

This Pictorial documents the process of designing a device as an intervention within a field study of new parents. The device was deployed in participating parents' homes to invite reflection on their everyday experiences of portraying self and others through social media in their transition to parenthood.

The design creates a dynamic representation of each participant's Facebook photo collection, extracting and amalgamating "faces" from it to create an alternative portrait of an online self. We document the rationale behind our design, explaining how its features were inspired and developed, and how they function to address research questions about human experience.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (Published)
• Conference Name: DIS '14: 2014 conference on Designing interactive systems
• Start Date: Jun 21, 2014
• End Date: Jun 25, 2014
• Online Publication Date: Jun 21, 2014
• Publication Date: 2014
• Deposit Date: Dec 13, 2023
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Pages: 503-512
• Book Title: DIS '14: Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Designing interactive systems
• ISBN: 9781450329026
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2598510.2602962
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2024582