Connecting the family with awareness systems

Romero, Natalia; Markopoulos, Panos; Baren, Joy van; Ruyter, Boris de; IJsselsteijn, Wijnand A.; Farshchian, Babak A.

doi:10.1007/s00779-006-0089-0

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“…More implicitly, family communication in the home can be supported through the use of games or game elements, such as the Family Contract Game [17] and Age Invaders [18]. A third category of support consists of devices that support communication with family members outside the home, for example, ASTRA [19] and Digital Family Portraits [20]. Most of these examples do not have the aim to support in-home communication between teenagers and parents, for example, they were designed to support reflection [15] or narratives [16], solve family disputes [17], close intergenerational gaps [18], or increase awareness of remote family members [19,20].…”

Section: Communication Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A third category of support consists of devices that support communication with family members outside the home, for example, ASTRA [19] and Digital Family Portraits [20]. Most of these examples do not have the aim to support in-home communication between teenagers and parents, for example, they were designed to support reflection [15] or narratives [16], solve family disputes [17], close intergenerational gaps [18], or increase awareness of remote family members [19,20]. Two exceptions are Fida [13], a small device that encourages communication between young teenagers and divorced parents by allowing them to record messages and convey their feelings to their parents, and Photoswitch [14], a novel photo display that encourages Fig.…”

Section: Communication Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Facilitating parent-teenager communication through interactive photo cubes

Golsteijn

Hoven

2011

Pers Ubiquit Comput

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Because most teenagers strive for freedom and try to live autonomously, communication with their parents could be improved. It appeared from a literature review and a diary study that parent-teenager communication primarily addresses teenager-oriented everyday activities. However, it also showed teenagers have a substantial interest in getting to know their parents and their parents' past. The study described in this paper seeks to address this opportunity by designing a product for parents and teenagers that facilitates communication about the past of the parents. The resulting design, called Cueb, is a set of interactive digital photo cubes with which parents and teenagers can explore individual and shared experiences and are triggered to exchange stories. An evaluation of a prototype of Cueb with four families showed that the participants felt significantly more triggered and supported to share their experiences and tell stories with Cueb's full functionality (connecting cubes, switching, and locking photographs) than with limited functionality (shaking to display random photographs), similar to more traditional photo media.

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Section: Communication Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Communication Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Facilitating parent-teenager communication through interactive photo cubes

Golsteijn

Hoven

2011

Pers Ubiquit Comput

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“…Communication and coordination of different personal devices is not the main focus. The ASTRA project [15] realizes a pervasive awareness system where personal pervasive systems are connected to deliver information about the state of users to each other. ASTRA provides means for end-user development in the form of rule sets that define what information is shared and how one's own environment reacts to changes in other users' environments.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

CAKE – Distributed Environments for Context-Aware Systems

Cassens

Schmitt

Herczeg

2013

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. In this paper, we introduce the distributed Context Awareness and Knowledge Environment CAKE. The design objectives for CAKE were to develop a system that is flexible enough to be used in different application domains, that supports re-use of components with the help of a well-defined plugin-system and application programming interface and that caters for privacy concerns by giving users access to personal context aware environments that share information selectively with other users' context aware environments. We describe related work on context middleware and the niche CAKE is targeting. We also argue for taking privacy concerns into account and outline how our framework addresses such issues. The concepts behind CAKE are introduced, and we describe how reasoning engines based on different paradigms can be put to work together in our framework. A first take on end-user programming is outlined and a prototypical implementation of the system presented.

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“…How to capture the essence of the need as precisely as possible? There were many terms invented to capture various modalities of social relationships, such as a 'social presence', 'the ability of a communication medium to emulate face-toface presence through its capacity to carry interpersonal communication cues; different media or systems can be directly evaluated with respect to how close they emulate the experience of face-to-face interaction between humans' [23] or 'social connectedness', 'a positive emotional appraisal, characterized by a feeling of staying in touch communication medium, in the context of social and within ongoing social relationships' [24]. Though the second term is quite close, we should abstract from technology to reveal the most inner needs.…”

Section: A Social Touchmentioning

confidence: 99%