Keeping in touch with the family: home and away with the ASTRA awareness system
CHI '04 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Mediated intimacy in families: understanding the relation between children and parents
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Interaction design and children
Strangers and friends: collaborative play in world of warcraft
CSCW '06 Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Chatting with teenagers: Considering the place of chat technologies in teen life
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Virtual box: supporting mediated family intimacy through virtual and physical play
OZCHI '07 Proceedings of the 19th Australasian conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Entertaining User Interfaces
The Magic Box and Collage: Responding to the challenge of distributed intergenerational play
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Supporting parent-child communication in divorced families
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
eKISS: sharing experiences in families through a picture blog
BCS-HCI '07 Proceedings of the 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference on People and Computers: HCI...but not as we know it - Volume 1
Developing a media space for remote synchronous parent-child interaction
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
Family communication: phone conversations with children
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
Sharing conversation and sharing life: video conferencing in the home
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Family story play: reading with young children (and elmo) over a distance
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
Designing for dynamic family structures: divorced families and interactive systems
Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
The effects of life disruptions on home technology routines
Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Supporting group work
Brothers and sisters at play: exploring game play with siblings
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Video kids: augmenting close friendships with asynchronous video conversations in videopal
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Family and design in the IDC and CHI communities
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
"almost touching": parent-child remote communication using the sharetable system
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Understanding the role of technology in parent-child reunion
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work companion
Front-camera video recordings as emotion responses to mobile photos shared within close-knit groups
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Shifting dynamics or breaking sacred traditions?: the role of technology in twelve-step fellowships
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Exploring the diversity of families: designing technologies for the contemporary family life
CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Infant emotional engagement in video mediated interactions
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
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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Parents and children in families living with regular separation due to work develop strategies to manage being apart. We interviewed 14 pairs of parents and children (ages 7 -- 13) from work-separated families to understand their experiences and the strategies that they use to keep their family together. Parents focus on combining scheduled synchronous and spontaneous asynchronous communication to maintain a constant presence in the life of the child. Children, on the other hand, focus on other sources of support, on other activities, and on the eventual reunion. Both the remote parent and the child rely heavily on a collocated adult to maintain aware-ness and contact. We compare work-separated families with other types of separation and highlight opportunities for new designs.