Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Designing and deploying an information awareness interface
CSCW '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Digital Family Portrait Field Trial: Support for Aging in Place
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Interpersonal awareness in the domestic realm
OZCHI '06 Proceedings of the 18th Australia conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Design: Activities, Artefacts and Environments
Connecting the family with awareness systems
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing - Memory and Sharing of Experiences
A diary study of mobile information needs
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Interpreting and acting on mobile awareness cues
Human-Computer Interaction
Locating family values: a field trial of the whereabouts clock
UbiComp '07 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Ubiquitous computing
Evaluation of a pervasive awareness system designed for busy parents
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
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We report an investigation into the communication needs of working parents pertaining to awareness of each other's whereabouts and activities. Twenty working parents took part in an experience sampling study for a period of one week and in follow up interviews. Analysis of participant responses shows that working parents can benefit from automatically updated information relating to availability of each other through the day, support for micro-coordination especially surrounding dinner time and children's activities and getting reassurance regarding the well being of the family. Analyzing the situational variations of information needs we find that parents seek their partner's communication availability during the day, require information to coordinate evening tasks and are prone to exchange information at home than at work.