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Sensing Their Presence: How Emerging Adults And Their Parents Connect After Moving Apart

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Hanieh Shakeri,

Denise Y. Geiskkovitch,

Carman NeustaedterAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581102

Published: 19 April 2023 Publication History

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When emerging adults move out of their parents’ homes for the first time, their needs for togetherness and connection evolve, as do their parents’. In co-located homes, people often experience togetherness passively by sensing one another’s presence in their environment. However, when no longer living together, methods of experiencing togetherness change. Thus, we conducted an interview and co-design study with 16 pairs of parents and emerging adults that explores this concept across distance. The study uncovered differences in the connection needs of emerging adults and their parents, including their goals in connecting, the amount of communication they needed, and their needs for privacy and transparency. We additionally found that passive connecting factors included ambient sounds of the home, visual shared experiences and traces of one another in the home, ambient home smellscapes and smell memories, touching left-behind objects or gifted objects, and the taste of family recipes and the ambience of family mealtimes. We discuss suggestions for designing for passive co-presence based on this new knowledge.

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Sensing Their Presence: How Emerging Adults And Their Parents Connect After Moving Apart
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing design and evaluation methods

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Shakeri HYuan YAxtell BGeiskkovitch DNeustaedter C(2024)Designing Smart Home Technology For Passive Co-Presence Over DistanceProceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference10.1145/3643834.3661508(3389-3406)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3643834.3661508
Shakeri HNeustaedter C(2024)Passive Co-presence: Exploring How Peripheral Devices Connect People Over DistanceExtended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613905.3651126(1-6)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613905.3651126
Seo JLim HSuh BLee J(2024)I feel being there, they feel being together: Exploring How Telepresence Robots Facilitate Long-Distance Family CommunicationProceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613904.3642305(1-18)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613904.3642305

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