Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet
Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet
The network in the garden: an empirical analysis of social media in rural life
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
EatWell: sharing nutrition-related memories in a low-income community
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Exploring communication and sharing between extended families
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
It's not all about "Green": energy use in low-income communities
Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Ubiquitous computing
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Understanding technology choices and values through social class
Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Reflexivity in digital anthropology
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Towards a feminist HCI methodology: social science, feminism, and HCI
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Social and technical challenges in parenting teens' social media use
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
"Our life is the farm and farming is our life": home-work coordination in organic farm families
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
Design strategies for youth-focused pervasive social health games
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare
Toward strong, usable access control for shared distributed data
FAST'14 Proceedings of the 12th USENIX conference on File and Storage Technologies
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Minorities are the fastest growing demographic in the U.S. and the poverty level in the U.S. is the highest it has been in 50 years. We interviewed middle to upper class, suburban, white American parents and low-income, urban, African-American parents to understand how each group incorporates technology into their lives. Participants had teens in their homes and devices like computers and cell phones played a powerful and preeminent role in family life. Our results show that socioeconomic differences both reflect and reinforce technology use at home. Specifically, low socioeconomic status families share devices more often and low socioeconomic status teens have more responsibility and independence in their technology use. We argue that that as low socioeconomic status families become the majority demographic, the CHI community needs to better understand how to design for these groups.