e-Seesaw: A Tangible, Ludic, Parent-child, Awareness System
Late-Breaking Works: Games & Playful Interaction
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Sun, Yingze
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Aylett, Matthew P.
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Vazquez-Alvarez, Yolanda
Extended Abstracts of the ACM CHI'16 Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems
2016-05-07
v.2
p.1821-1827
© Copyright 2016 ACM
Summary: In modern China, the pace of life is becoming faster and working pressure is
increasing often leading to pressure on families and family interaction. 23
pairs of working parents and their children were asked what they saw as their
main communication challenges and how they currently used communication
technology to stay in touch. The mobile phone was the dominant form of
communication despite being poorly rated by children as a way of enhancing a
sense of connection and love. Parents and children were presented with a series
of design probes to investigate how current communication technology might be
supported or enhanced with a tangible and playful awareness system. One of the
designs, the e-Seesaw, was selected and evaluated in a lab and home setting.
Participant reaction was positive with the design provoking a novel perspective
on remote parent-child interaction allowing even very young children to both
initiate and control communication.