Home-school technologies: Considering the family

Fraser, Katie; Rodden, Tom; O'Malley, Claire

Abstract

Research has focused on building technologies to support children in their transitions between home and school 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. Copyright 2006 ACM.

Citation

Fraser, K., Rodden, T., & O'Malley, C. (2006, June). Home-school technologies: Considering the family. Presented at IDC06: 5th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, Tampere Finland

• Presentation Conference Type: Edited Proceedings
• Conference Name: IDC06: 5th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
• Start Date: Jun 7, 2006
• End Date: Jun 9, 2006
• Publication Date: Jun 7, 2006
• Deposit Date: Oct 19, 2021
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 2006
• Pages: 153-156
• Book Title: IDC '06: Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Interaction design and children
• ISBN: 978-1-4503-7808-6
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/1139073.1139111
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/3222745