Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Couples often experience a decrease in closeness as they cope with the demands of parenthood.Existing technologies have supported parenting and parental collaboration.However, these technologies do not adequately support closeness in co-parenting.We use scenarios and design probes to brainstorm with 10 new parent couples to explore and envision possibilities for technologies to support closeness.We reported parents' current technology use for co-parenting and how participants considered and envisioned co-parenting technology for closeness, including information and task sharing, emotion awareness and disclosure, and fostering fun interaction.We discuss the potential technology has for fostering closeness in co-parenting by (1) fostering interdependence by supporting parental competence and (2) integrating positive emotions and experiences, such as validation and fun, in parenting.Based on our findings, we expand the design space of technology for closeness to include interdependence.We also expand the design space for co-parenting technology by integrating more positive emotions.
Institutions: Pennsylvania State University, Tsinghua University
Language: English
Subfield: Human-Computer Interaction
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4412035586