The persona effect: affective impact of animated pedagogical agents
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Technology probes: inspiring design for and with families
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Family accounts: a new paradigm for user accounts within the home environment
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Developing a media space for remote synchronous parent-child interaction
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Making love in the network closet: the benefits and work of family videochat
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Sharing conversation and sharing life: video conferencing in the home
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Video playdate: toward free play across distance
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
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User interfaces for tangible characters: can children connect remotely through toy perspectives?
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Story Time for the 21st Century
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Family storytelling for grandparents and grandchildren living apart
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Pop goes the cell phone: asynchronous messaging for preschoolers
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Pokaboo: a networked toy for distance communication and play
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Interactive rich reading: enhanced book reading experience with a conversational agent
MM '11 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Multimedia
People in books: using a FlashCam to become part of an interactive book for connected reading
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
synchronous MediaSharing: social and communal media consumption for geographically dispersed users
Proceedings of the 3rd Multimedia Systems Conference
Intimacy in long-distance relationships over video chat
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
IllumiShare: sharing any surface
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference 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
Moving beyond talking heads to shared experiences: the future of personal video communication
Proceedings of the 17th ACM international conference on Supporting group work
ITEM: immersive telepresence for entertainment and meetings with commodity setup
Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Multimedia
How and why teenagers use video chat
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Experiences2Go: sharing kids' activities outside the home with remote family members
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Investigating the communication patterns of distance-separated grandparents and grandchildren
CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The future of personal video communication: moving beyond talking heads to shared experiences
CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Translating Roberto to Omar: computational literacy, stickerbooks, and cultural forms
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
Understanding user behavior at scale in a mobile video chat application
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international joint conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing
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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StoryVisit allows children and long-distance adults to experience a sense of togetherness by reading children's story books together over a distance. StoryVisit combines video conferencing and connected books: remote grown-up and child readers can see and hear each other, and can also see and control the same e-book. We report on research with 61 families - over 200 users including parents, children and long-distance readers - who used StoryVisit in their homes with a long-distance reader for at least one reading session. In addition, we report qualitative findings regarding nineteen of the families who participated in telephone interviews and four families who were monitored and interviewed by researchers at home. Results show that connected e-book video chat sessions last about five times as long as the typical video chats reported in previous research on families with young children. Moreover, the addition of an animated character increased session lengths by another 50%. StoryVisit usage peaked for families with three year olds, showing that sustained distance interactions with very young children are possible if communication technologies incorporate joint activities that engage children and adults.