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Conducting research and technology design for domestic life is by no means easy. Methods commonly used in the field of Human-Computer Interaction in settings like the workplace may not easily translate to the richness and complexity of domestic life. This book documents new ways in which researchers are studying domestic life, as well as designing and evaluating technology in the home. Each chapter is a candid discussion about methods that were successfully used for research studies with a focus on the challenges that the researchers faced and the best practices they learned.Discover new re

Environmental psychology --- Domestic relations. --- Assistive computer technology. --- Data processing. --- Accessible computing technology --- Adaptive computing --- Adaptive computing technology for people with disabilities --- Assistive computing technology --- Barrier-free computing technology --- Computers and people with disabilities --- Self-help devices for people with disabilities --- Domestic relations --- Families --- Family law --- Marriage --- Persons (Law) --- Sex and law --- Cognitive ergonomics --- Ecological psychology --- Ecopsychology --- Ecotherapy --- Environmental quality --- Environmental social sciences --- Human factors science --- Psychoeology --- Psychology --- Psychotherapy --- Ecological Systems Theory --- Law and legislation --- Psychological aspects

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New technologies are radically changing the way that families connect with one another: we can text our teenagers from work, eat dinner with far-away parents via video link, and instantly upload and share photos after a family day out. Whether we are bridging time or distance, and whether we are enhancing our closest relationships or strengthening the bonds of extended family, as computer technologies alter the communication landscape, they in turn are changing the way we conduct and experience family life. This state of the art volume explores the impact of new communication systems on how families interact – how they share their lives and routines, engage in social touch, and negotiate being together or being apart – by considering a range of different family relationships that shape the nature of communication. Composed of three sections, the first looks at what is often the core of a ‘family’, the couple, to understand the impact of technology on couple relationships, communication, and feelings of closeness. The second section studies immediate families that have expanded beyond just the individual or couple to include children. Here, the emphasis is on connection for communication, coordination, and play. The third section moves beyond the immediate family to explore connections between extended, distributed family members. This includes connections between adult children and their parents, grandparents and grandchildren, and adult siblings. Here family members have grown older, moved away from ‘home’, and forged new families. Researchers, designers and developers of new communication technologies will find this volume invaluable. Connecting Families: The Impact of New Communication Technologies on Domestic Life brings together the most up-to-date studies to help in understanding how new communication technologies shape – and are shaped by – family life, and offers inspiration and guidance for design by making clear what families need and value from technological systems.

Communication -- Technological innovations -- Social aspects. --- Computers and families. --- Internet and families. --- Technological innovations. --- Communication --- Internet and families --- Computers and families --- Sociology & Social History --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Social Sciences --- Social Change --- Computer Science --- Technological innovations --- Social aspects --- Social aspects. --- Computers and family --- Families and computers --- Families and the Internet --- Internet and family --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Computer science. --- Software engineering. --- User interfaces (Computer systems). --- Computers and civilization. --- Computer Science. --- Computers and Society. --- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction. --- Software Engineering. --- Families --- Sociology --- Informatics --- Science --- Computer software engineering --- Engineering --- Civilization and computers --- Civilization --- Interfaces, User (Computer systems) --- Human-machine systems --- Human-computer interaction