Admixed portrait: design to understand Facebook portrayals in new parenthood

Durrant, Abigail; Kirk, David S.; Trujillo-Pisanty, Diego; Martindale, Sarah

Abstract

We report on a design-led study of the photographic representation of self and family on Facebook during and after becoming parents for the first time. Our experience-centered, research-through-design study engaged eight participants across five UK homes, in a month-long deployment of a prototype technology -- a design research artifact, Admixed Portrait, that served to prompt participant reflection on first-time parenthood. In addition to pre- and post-deployment interviews, participants kept diaries capturing personal reflections during the deployment, on daily social media use and interactions with Admixed. Our qualitative insights on social media representations of transitional experience and identity for new parents, reveal how their online 'photowork' related to self-expression and social functioning. We contribute design considerations for developing tools to support photographic expression in social media use, and methodological insights about design-led inquiry for understanding transitional experiences.

Citation

Durrant, A., Kirk, D. S., Trujillo-Pisanty, D., & Martindale, S. (2018). Admixed portrait: design to understand Facebook portrayals in new parenthood. In CHI '18: proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (1–14). https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173586

• Conference Name: 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
• Conference Location: Montréal, Canada
• Start Date: Apr 21, 2018
• End Date: Apr 26, 2018
• Acceptance Date: Nov 1, 2018
• Publication Date: Apr 19, 2018
• Deposit Date: Jan 30, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 31, 2019
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 1–14
• Book Title: CHI '18: proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
• ISBN: 9781450356206
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173586
• Keywords: Parenthood; Facebook; Photograph; Identity transition; Research through design
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1218753
• Publisher URL: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3173574.3173586