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Casablanca: designing social communication devices for the home
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
'TSUNAGARI' communication: fostering a feeling of connection between family members
CHI '02 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Cultural probes and the value of uncertainty
interactions - Funology
Domestic Routines and Design for the Home
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Technology as Experience
Digital Family Portrait Field Trial: Support for Aging in Place
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
TxtBoard: from text-to-person to text-to-home
CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A survey of personal and household scheduling
GROUP '05 Proceedings of the 2005 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work
HomeNote: supporting situated messaging in the home
CSCW '06 Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Hertzian Tales: Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience, and Critical Design
Hertzian Tales: Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience, and Critical Design
Editorial: The family and communication technologies
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Following the white rabbit: a robot rabbit as vocabulary trainer for beginners of English
USAB'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on HCI in work and learning, life and leisure: workgroup human-computer interaction and usability engineering
Lovers' box: Designing for reflection within romantic relationships
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Poetic communication: interactive carpet for subtle family communication and connectedness
AmI'11 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Ambient Intelligence
Empathy, participatory design and people with dementia
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
On legitimacy: designer as minor scientist
CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A design-led inquiry into personhood in dementia
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Towards a questionnaire for measuring affective benefits and costs of communication technologies
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
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We present an alternative view of family communication that foregrounds both the emotional lives of family members and that which is of personal significance to them. Through the reflections of our participants, and our design response to these, we have used the design of digital jewellery as a window on the family as an emotional entity. In doing so we escape conventional assumptions as to how technology might support family life, and instead propose alternative forms of technology that serve as acceptable sites for highly personalised and personally significant emotional statements. Two designs are presented, Traces and Blossom, which are both responses to the lives and personal accounts of our participants, and a challenge to the conventions of interaction design. By reflecting on our designs we identify and unpick assumptions as to the nature of the digital technology with a view to opening up a design space that places an emphasis on both the individual and the authentic character of our emotional lives.