Time-management: a case for CSCW
CSCW '92 Proceedings of the 1992 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
Things that make us smart: defending human attributes in the age of the machine
Things that make us smart: defending human attributes in the age of the machine
Calendars on the new frontier: challenges of groupware technology
Calendars on the new frontier: challenges of groupware technology
Increasing the opportunities for aging in place
CUU '00 Proceedings on the 2000 conference on Universal Usability
Age-old practices in the 'new world': a study of gift-giving between teenage mobile phone users
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Voice-mail diary studies for naturalistic data capture under mobile conditions
CSCW '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
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
The Mobile Phone: An Identity on the Move
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Discovery and Integration of Mobile Communications in Everyday Life
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
The evolution of buildings and implications for the design of ubiquitous domestic environments
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Wan2tlk?: everyday text messaging
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The Mobile Connection: The Cell Phone's Impact on Society
The Mobile Connection: The Cell Phone's Impact on Society
In-car concepts to support working parents
CHI '04 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Predictors of availability in home life context-mediated communication
CSCW '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Digital Family Portrait Field Trial: Support for Aging in Place
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Exploring technology adoption and use through the lens of residential mobility
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Understanding mobile phone requirements for young adults with cognitive disabilities
Proceedings of the 9th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
Extraordinary computing: religion as a lens for reconsidering the home
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the 11th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
OZCHI '09 Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group: Design: Open 24/7
The domestic panopticon: location tracking in families
Proceedings of the 12th ACM international conference on Ubiquitous computing
A case study of non-adoption: the values of location tracking in the family
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Re-scripting interactive artefacts with feminine values
DPPI '11 Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces
"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
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More attention is being paid to the development of information and communication technologies (ICTs) that are sensitive to the needs of people in their homes. By studying mobile telephony in such settings, we contribute to this discussion by examining how behaviors and characteristics of family life shape and in turn are shaped by ICTs. We present the results of a study of the primary caregivers in five families who were studied over the course of a week. We found that parents only relaxed their attachment to their mobile phones when in the presence of their children. Parents and other families perceived their phones as a means of staying connected or tethered across different kinds of situations. Ages of children and their involvement with other institutions beyond the family affected how parents oriented to their mobile phones, matching their parental shift work to those institutional schedules. Transition times between children's activities were important moments for mobile phone use between child and parent as well as parent and others because those transitions also marked a change in parents' work. Ultimately, the mobile phone facilitated the extension of a wider reach of "home" beyond the physical house, meaning that the parent--enhanced by the direct line of the mobile phone--was the embodiment of "home base."