Together: Understanding How Technology Use within Families Shapes Parents' Experiences

Derix, Eleanor Chin

Together: Understanding How Technology Use within Families Shapes Parents' Experiences

Derix, Eleanor Chin

Permalink

Publication Type:: Thesis
Issue Date:: 2023

Open Access

Copyright Clearance Process

Recently Added
In Progress
Open Access

This item is open access.

Adobe PDF

Download thesisAdobe PDF (42.22 MB)

View statistics

Full metadata record

Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Derix, Eleanor Chin
dc.date.accessioned	2023-09-27T00:35:22Z
dc.date.available	2023-09-27T00:35:22Z
dc.date.issued	2023
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/172303
dc.description	University of Technology Sydney. Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology.	en_US.UTF-8
dc.description.abstract	This thesis provides the first empirically grounded understanding within HCI (human-computer interaction) of how the use of interactive technologies within families can shape parents’ and their relationships. The studies conducted for this thesis confirm that, while the use of technologies (especially mobile devices) plays an increasingly significant role within families, parents commonly associate it with a range of complex experiences. This is because parents perceive technology use to negatively impact on family dynamics and child development. Thus, parents’ experiences of integrating technology use into everyday family life are often contentious and messy. This research discovers that family technology use can shape, and be shaped by, parents' relationships. Specifically, by describing how the use of technologies within families can contribute towards conflict between parents. These studies also demonstrate how new methodological approaches can help develop a more nuanced picture of how technologies are used and experienced within families. Specifically, by adapting the design and use of probes to capture and compare parents’ individual perspectives on family technology use. Finally, this thesis investigates how the design of interactive technologies might help improve parents’ experiences of managing mobile device use during family time. The theoretical focus of this research contributes towards more holistic understandings of family technology use. This work also delivers a methodological contribution of how we might begin to extend existing HCI research methods, that are rooted in the exploration of individual experiences, to interrogate the multiple perspectives of device use in domestic settings. Finally, this thesis proposes ways in which interactive technologies, that have long been intended to prioritise individual user engagement, might be designed to better support parents' needs and aspirations for the time their family spends together.	en_US.UTF-8
dc.format	Thesis (PhD)
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US.UTF-8
dc.relation	https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/bitstream/10453/172303/1/thesis.pdf
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights	The author owns the copyright in this thesis including all reproduction and reuse rights for the work. The work may not be altered without the permission of the copyright owner. Attribution is essential when quoting or paraphrasing from this thesis.
dc.rights	© 2023 Eleanor Chin Derix
dc.rights	au.edu.uts.lib/cph
dc.title	Together: Understanding How Technology Use within Families Shapes Parents' Experiences	en_US.UTF-8
dc.type	Thesis
utslib.copyright.status	open_access	*

Abstract:

This thesis provides the first empirically grounded understanding within HCI (human-computer interaction) of how the use of interactive technologies within families can shape parents’ and their relationships. The studies conducted for this thesis confirm that, while the use of technologies (especially mobile devices) plays an increasingly significant role within families, parents commonly associate it with a range of complex experiences. This is because parents perceive technology use to negatively impact on family dynamics and child development. Thus, parents’ experiences of integrating technology use into everyday family life are often contentious and messy. This research discovers that family technology use can shape, and be shaped by, parents' relationships. Specifically, by describing how the use of technologies within families can contribute towards conflict between parents. These studies also demonstrate how new methodological approaches can help develop a more nuanced picture of how technologies are used and experienced within families. Specifically, by adapting the design and use of probes to capture and compare parents’ individual perspectives on family technology use. Finally, this thesis investigates how the design of interactive technologies might help improve parents’ experiences of managing mobile device use during family time. The theoretical focus of this research contributes towards more holistic understandings of family technology use. This work also delivers a methodological contribution of how we might begin to extend existing HCI research methods, that are rooted in the exploration of individual experiences, to interrogate the multiple perspectives of device use in domestic settings. Finally, this thesis proposes ways in which interactive technologies, that have long been intended to prioritise individual user engagement, might be designed to better support parents' needs and aspirations for the time their family spends together.

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:

http://hdl.handle.net/10453/172303