Friction in scheduling and coordinating lives of families

Hoefnagels, Stephan; Geelhoed, Erik; Stappers, Pieter Jan; Hoeben, Aldo; Lugt, Remko van der

doi:10.1145/1013115.1013170

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“…Knowing where family members are and planning where they should be at any given time are key in the research and design efforts on family coordination [e.g., 2,8,9,28]. And while much research has shown the centrality of the home as a place for the family to gather, organize and coordinate their activities, and as such shape social structures within the family [6,25,33,37], family coordination research and design extend beyond the home to other locations, such as at work and when on the move [2,9,12,17,28].…”

Section: Spacementioning

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"Our life is the farm and farming is our life"

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Håkansson

Kaye

2014

Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work &Amp; Social Computing

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We present a qualitative study of 13 farm families who intentionally merge their home and work lives. This is in contrast to most families studied in CSCW, who are urban/ suburban, white-collar and often dual-income, where the goal is to balance separate home and work spheres. We analyze the farm families' coordination practices along three dimensionsspace, time, and roles -and contrast their experiences to what is known in CSCW about family coordination practices. Through this, we reveal blind spots in CSCW's study of and support for family coordination toward building better tools to support such activities. We emphasize considering colocation rather than assuming geographic distribution across life spheres, the value of natural rhythms in understanding and supporting family life, and how taking on simultaneous roles can be viewed as a life goal rather than a source of conflict.

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Section: Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

"Our life is the farm and farming is our life"

Leshed

Håkansson

Kaye

2014

Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work &Amp; Social Computing

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“…Hoefnagels et al focus on how to reduce friction in scheduling and coordinating lives of families [6]. Their focus is on the practical coordination, but to understand these aspects they also take the social relations and intimacy of families into account.…”

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eKISS: Sharing Experiences in Families Through a Picture Blog

Dalsgaard

Skov

Thomassen

2007

Electronic Workshops in Computing

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Contemporary family life can be very stressful and many families are often busy and separated by time or distance. Physical separation makes it difficult to maintain an awareness of each other and the feeling of intimacy. But lack of such intimacy can result in insecure and troubled children. This paper outlines eKISS, a picture weblog for mediating intimacy between children and parents. eKISS supports asynchronous sharing of experiences from the children to their parents while being physically separated. Communication is based on pictures and text sent through mobile technology and shared on a weblog available to the family. A longitudinal field evaluation revealed that eKISS was able to support acts of intimacy by providing insight, new communication channel, and the possibility to easily share experiences. It also revealed that eKISS was most useful when the family was separated for longer periods of time.

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“…Unlike LINC, it does not support ubiquitous calendar access. Hoefnagel et al's [4] conceptual "long-term planner" connects family activity "squares" in an activity diagram. While a plausible design metaphor, it does not take advantage of people's existing skills at understanding and using a calendar grid.…”

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A digital family calendar in the home

Neustaedter

Brush

Greenberg

2007

Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2007 on - GI '07

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Digital family calendars have the potential to help families coordinate, yet they must be designed to easily fit within existing routines or they will simply not be used. To understand the critical factors affecting digital family calendar design, we extended LINC, an inkable family calendar to include ubiquitous access, and then conducted a month-long field study with four families. Adoption and use of LINC during the study demonstrated that LINC successfully supported the families' existing calendaring routines without disrupting existing successful social practices. Families also valued the additional features enabled by LINC. For example, several primary schedulers felt that ubiquitous access positively increased involvement by additional family members in the calendaring routine. The field trials also revealed some unexpected findings, including the importance of mobility-both within and outside the home-for the Tablet PC running LINC.

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Friction in scheduling and coordinating lives of families

Cited by 5 publications

References 7 publications

"Our life is the farm and farming is our life"

"Our life is the farm and farming is our life"

eKISS: Sharing Experiences in Families Through a Picture Blog

A digital family calendar in the home

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