To Use or Not to Use: Mediation and Limitation of Digital Screen Technologies within Nuclear Families

Duckert, Melanie; Barkhuus, Louise

doi:10.1145/3452918.3458808

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“…Similarly, Salmela and colleague's [73] study of smartphone use in the bedroom reveals that the intimacy in couples' bed-sharing practices is shaped by smartphones taken into the bed. Others argue [6,18] that smartphone use introduces tensions in modern family life, as adult and adolescent expectations of smartphone use are often misaligned and continuously negotiated.…”

Section: Related Work 21 Problematising Smartphone Usementioning

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“…One approach to design for reducing smartphone use is to view this as an individual behavioural problem. HCI and Interaction Design research includes studies showing that many families adopt strategies and rules to limit smartphone use [18,60] and, in turn, research in HCI also provides design solutions that restrict the use of smartphones in a family setting [9,34,44,51]. Here, the diametric framing of individualised "good" or "bad" behaviours is a seemingly aspirational design approach.…”

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“…Smardio was deployed with family Two, Three and Four, and Tempus with family Five, Six and Seven. We invited families with children still living at home (Elias from family five visited the parents' home 2-3 times a week), between the ages Additionally, prior research indicates that such families represent situations: 1) where strategies and rules for restricting smartphone use are commonplace [6,18]; and 2) where family members tend to implicitly agree that using the phone during a collocated social exchange is problematic [1,9].…”

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“…As family members use their smartphones in many shared spaces in the home, like the kitchen, living room, and bedroom, different expectations arise regarding when and how the smartphone should be used [41,73]. Consequently, how expectations of smartphone use are negotiated between family members shapes household dynamics and amplifies emergent tensions, particularly between parents and children [6,18,44,60]. We also see HCI and Interaction Design research engaging with emergent tensions related to smartphone use.…”

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“…Smartphone use may include making phone calls, sending and receiving text messages or emails, browsing the internet, using social media, taking pictures and videos, playing games, listening to music, and accessing various tools and apps. While there is a longstanding HCI research tradition that engages with improving design and evaluation efforts that facilitate the creation of desirable and personal user experiences for the smartphone [43,50,92], recent research finds that people are increasingly concerned about smartphone use and its impact on social relationships [9,18]. The home has, in particular, become a contentious site for people's smartphone use in the presence of others [60].…”

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Provotyping Accountability: Exploring Smartphone Use in the Home through Design

Jensen,

Encinas,

Strengers

et al. 2023

Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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In response to research concerns that smartphone usage negatively impacts intimate relationships, this paper presents a study exploring how design can encourage smartphone accountability in family home settings. We developed and deployed three provotypes with seven families via a Research through Design study intended to encourage reflections on ubiquitous and routinised smartphone usage. The provotypes progressively explore ways of making smartphone use visible by facilitating individualised accountability, competitive accountability, and collective accountability. We present insights into how these provotypes shaped family practices based on a qualitative study with 26 participants. We found that, by emphasising different forms of shared accountability, the provotypes reduced smartphone use, which in turn fostered family intimacy and togetherness, rooted in meanings of caring and sharing. Finally, we discuss our study's implications for how provotypes can help explore forms of accountability in practices involving sustainable technology use within the home. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in interaction design; Field studies; Smartphones.

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Provotyping Accountability: Exploring Smartphone Use in the Home through Design

Jensen,

Encinas,

Strengers

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Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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Co-Designing with Early Adolescents: Understanding Perceptions of and Design Considerations for Tech-Based Mediation Strategies that Promote Technology Disengagement

Chowdhury

Bunt

2023

Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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The Tale of a Complicated Relationship

Terzimehić

Aragon-Hahner

Hußmann

2023

Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol.

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Smartphones have gotten under public scrutiny due to their ostensible negative impact on users' well-being. Nonetheless, users and related work report positive aspects of smartphones, too. We investigated this discrepancy through the prism of the emotional user-smartphone relationship by having people write love/breakup letters to their smartphones. We gathered 82 letters - 42 before and 40 during the COVID-19 pandemic. We found a mixed nature regarding the distribution of love and breakup letters and associated emotions based on the revisited OCC-model of emotions - with a slight shift towards the negative emotional spectrum during the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, we performed an extensive qualitative analysis of 819 user statements extracted from the letters, resulting in a connection of emotions to 17 smartphone features and eight themes of real-life consequences of smartphone use. We then identified eight common patterns of this connection, classified as smartphone roles. The collected letters mostly model a complex user-smartphone relationship, comprising different roles depending on users' inner and outer context. We discuss how HCI could help in shaping the complex user-smartphone relationship in future research and suggest supporting a healthy balance between users' daily life and smartphone use.

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To Use or Not to Use: Mediation and Limitation of Digital Screen Technologies within Nuclear Families

Cited by 3 publications

References 23 publications

Provotyping Accountability: Exploring Smartphone Use in the Home through Design

Provotyping Accountability: Exploring Smartphone Use in the Home through Design

Co-Designing with Early Adolescents: Understanding Perceptions of and Design Considerations for Tech-Based Mediation Strategies that Promote Technology Disengagement

The Tale of a Complicated Relationship

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