Together Together: Combining Shared and Separate Activities in Designing Technology for Family Life
Abstract
There is a growing concern that the pervasive individualized, digital means for connecting with others is challenging family togetherness, such as Sherry Turkle expresses it in her book entitled "Alone Together". As a response to this concern, we explore a new direction for designing technologies supporting families being 'Together Together' through using separate activities as drivers for shared activities in designing for domestic family life. The direction derives from the use of Participatory Design techniques, engaging six families in a series of in-situ workshops, envisioning how technology can support shared domestic family experiences. We explore this design space through the design of the STORIES prototype and we present the results from in-situ deployments of the STORIES prototype. We conclude that designing for a combination of separate and shared family activities is a promising approach in designing for Family Togetherness.
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Family sharing enhances the sense of family togetherness and unity, benefiting children's growth and learning.
“Such family sharing enhances the sense of family togetherness and unity, benefiting children's growth and learning [20].”
From "When He Feels Cold, He Goes to the Seahorse"—Blending Generative AI into Multimaterial Storymaking for Family Expressive Arts Therapy (2024) · cites this paper as [20]
Storymaking can become a family ritual with potential value of promoting family interaction and sense of togetherness.
“This suggests the potential value of promoting family interaction [20] and the sense of togetherness [114] when storymaking can become a family ritual.”
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- Authors
- Christensen, P. K., Skovgaard, C. Ø., & Petersen, M. G.
- Affiliations
- Lego (Denmark) (DK)
- Mjølner Informatics A/S, Aarhus, Denmark
- Aarhus University (DK)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2019-06-12
- Pages
- 374-385
- OpenAlex
- W2948776854
- Cited by
- 21
- References
- 32
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 4
- FWCI
- 1.82
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC) (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Interactive and Immersive Displays
- Social Sciences › Education › Child Development and Digital Technology
- Keywords
- family cohesion, participatory design, Sherry Turkle, Alone Together
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