TxtBoard: from text-to-person to text-to-home
CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
HomeNote: supporting situated messaging in the home
CSCW '06 Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Hermes@Home: supporting awareness and intimacy between distant family members
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
SPARCS: exploring sharing suggestions to enhance family connectedness
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Designing a technological playground: a field study of the emergence of play in household messaging
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Analyzing facebook privacy settings: user expectations vs. reality
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference
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In this paper we report on the design and implementation of an initial prototype to explore how to better situate in the home social media content individually generated by family members. We considered whether existing infrastructure and practices of social media might be leveraged to offer new kinds of shared family experiences. We found that families perceived the system to be "cosy" and intimate, especially in contrast to Facebook, and as a result 'shared to care'. While aspects of the design had a strong role to play in faciliating this perception, participants enacted their own boundaries of sharing and disclosure based on pre-existing practices and attitudes toward social technologies. The study demonstrated that there are productive design opportunities in home systems that can leverage content via a broad range of social media applications.