Digital family portraits: supporting peace of mind for extended family members
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Supporting Relationship Maintenance for Elders and Family Living Abroad
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Grow and know: understanding record-keeping needs for tracking the development of young children
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Providing affective information to family and friends based on social networks
CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Incorporating culture in user-interface: a case study of older adults in malaysia
Proceedings of the eighteenth conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
Gust of Me: Reconnecting Mother and Son
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Anchor: connecting sailors to home
CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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This study investigates the motivations of using rich-media forms of computer-mediated-communication (CMC) tools among young mothers living abroad to maintain ties with their geographically-separated families and friends. Our research involves sixteen Malaysian young mothers living in the United Kingdom, most of them dealing with the challenges of juggling work or studies and taking care of their babies. We investigate the digital records and family communication practices as well as motivations that underlie the use of CMC to create baby stories and narratives. Our results highlight the value of technologies to share and have access to the quotidian experiences at each side of the globe and to the baby's life. We discuss the implications of these results for the designing of future rich-media types of CMCs to capture narratives.