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A finger on the pulse: temporal rhythms and information seeking in medical work
CSCW '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Technology probes: inspiring design for and with families
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Supporting the distributed family: the need for a conversational context
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CHI '08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Are you sleeping?: sharing portrayed sleeping status within a social network
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International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
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International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Sharing empty moments: design for remote couples
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Family communication: phone conversations with children
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Understanding family communication across time zones
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Family storytelling for grandparents and grandchildren living apart
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Regular contact between children and their adult relatives can be a problem if they live in different time zones. In this situation, finding an agreed time to contact each other can be both confusing and complicated. This paper presents a study of the effect of time zone differences on communication between grandparents and grandchildren living in different time zones. We deployed a system between time zone distributed families to study this effect and analysed its use based on four parameters of time and events based theory: rigid sequential structures (that some events cannot occur before others), fixed durations (that most events always last the same time), standard temporal locations (that events have a standard time when they occur during the day) and uniform rates of recurrence (that some events always reoccur at a uniform rate). Our findings highlight the importance of: the need to consider the parents' role in facilitating contact and making the technology easy to use by children independently; the advantage of concurrent synchronous and asynchronous interaction forms; and the need to respect people's private time. These findings can inform the design of technology for supporting young children's communications with adult relatives across time zones.