Home-school technologies: considering the family

  • Authors:
  • Katie Fraser;Tom Rodden;Claire O'Malley

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK;University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK;University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Interaction design and children
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Research has focused on building technologies to support children in their transitions between home and school [9] without a developed sense of how individual families react to such technologies. We interviewed three different families about their reactions to ubiquitous computing technologies designed to support home-school transitions. We found that families were willing to use such technologies to share information among themselves, but that mechanisms for filtering this information would be a challenge for designers. Further, families were reluctant to share information with outsiders, such as teachers. We will discuss the implications of these findings for both future technologies, and further research into their design.