Mobile Family Interaction

The PostIts

Matti — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:37:34 +0000

As part of the workshop we collected research interests, topic and other interesting content into a bunch of post it notes. After grouping them in topics, it was given as a task to collect them in one presentation and analyze them further.

The presentation is now attached here, further work still continues to understand them deeper.

Gitte’s presentation

Matti — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:50:32 +0000

Whoa, finally back from Sweden and time to start pulling the stuff together. Here’s the presenation Gitte showed us.

MobileCHI workshop schedule

Matti — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:55:41 +0000

09.00 — 10.30 Welcome, introductions, opening keynote by Gitte Stald

10.30 — 11.00 Coffee

11.00 — 12.00 Set the scene: Problem statements and focuses in the co-design session, grouping

12.00 — 13.00 Lunch

13.00 — 17.00 Co-design session

14.45 — 15.15 Coffee

17.00 — 18.00 Wrap-up and closing

Deadline extended

Matti — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 20:17:03 +0000

The deadline of the workshop position papers has been extended.

The new deadline is 24th of April, so there’s still time to think and submit your thoughts.

Gitte Stald as a keynote speaker

Matti — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 08:51:11 +0000

We are happy to announce that Gitte Stald, an associate professor in Digital cultures and mobile communication research group at the IT University of Copenhagen, has accepted our invitation to be a keynote speaker in the MobileCHI 2011 workshop.

Her background is extensively in adolescents’ digital media culture and mobile media. She has also participated in the EU Kids Online-research project. I’m extremely interested to hear Gitte’s thoughts on this topic and also comments to workshop papers.

On behalf of the organizers,

Matti

Initial thoughts

Matti — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:28:08 +0000

Our workshop proposal “Mobile Family Interaction: How to use mobile technology to bring trust, safety and wellbeing into families” was accepted to MobileCHI 2011, a conference specializing in human-computer interfaces with mobile devices and services.

In this workshop, we welcome multiple approaches to start to explore this domain. We particularly welcome the following approaches:

* Empirical studies of preteen use of mobile technology, including use for communication among friends and family. Empirical analysis of themes, opportunities, coping strategies and mediation is also welcomed.

* Case studies of campaigns and other efforts to improve media literacy skills, and child-child and child-adult mediation, with particular emphasis on the development of best practices, as well as theoretical work on topics such as child-child or child-adult mediation.

* Presentations of innovative solutions and concepts that improve family life and child empowerment. The solutions will likely include mobile aspects, but may include also other media sources, such as the Web.

This is a cross-disciplinary workshop, and as such we explicitly invite contributions from a range of disciplines, including anthropology and ethnography, sociology, education, design studies, social sciences, science and technology studies and computer science. We also welcome contributions from non-academic organizations, such as corporations and both governmental and non-governmental organizations

The call for papers is out there, and more information is going to follow later on.

On behalf of the organizers,

Matti & Jofish