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Parenting with Alexa: Exploring the Introduction of Smart Speakers on Family Dynamics
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Smart speakers have become pervasive in family homes, creating the potential for these devices to influence parent-child dynamics and parenting behaviors. We investigate the impact of introducing a smart speaker to 10 families with children, over four weeks. We use pre- and post- deployment interviews with the whole family and in-home audio capture of parent-child interactions with the smart speaker for our analysis. Despite the smart speaker causing occasional conflict in the home, we observed that parents lever-aged the smart speaker to further parenting goals. We found three forms of influence the smart speaker has on family dynamics: 1) fostering communication, 2) disrupting access, and 3) augmenting parenting. All of these influences arise from a communally accessible, stand-alone voice interface which democratizes family access to technology. We discuss design implications in furthering parenting practices and behaviors as the capabilities of the technology continue to improve.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Beneteau, E., Boone, A., Wu, Y., Kientz, J. A., Yip, J., & Hiniker, A.
- Affiliations
- University of Washington (US)
- Indiana University Bloomington (US)
- University of Washinton, Seattle, WA, USA
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2020-04-21
- Pages
- 1-13
- OpenAlex
- W3029691645
- Cited by
- 140
- References
- 39
- Citations by year
- 2026: 20 · 2025: 22 · 2024: 28 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 20 · 2021: 31 · 2020: 2
- FWCI
- 56.34
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Mozilla Foundation
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Child Development and Digital Technology
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Social Sciences › Demography › Family Dynamics and Relationships
- Keywords
- smart speakers, Amazon Alexa, parenting, parent-child interaction, family dynamics, speech interfaces, family communication, access to technology
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