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PlayBetter: A Phone-based Baby Play Support System for Childcare Bystander Parents

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CHI EA '17: Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 2100 - 2106

https://doi.org/10.1145/3027063.3053073

Published: 06 May 2017 Publication History

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The parents' balanced participation in childcare is important for a child's intellectual and emotional growth. In many countries, however, there are many families where one parent is the primary caregiver and the other is just a bystander in terms of caring for their baby because of the latter's ignorance in and indifference to childcare as well as work exhaustion. In this work, we present a prototype called "PlayBetter", an application that can help childcare bystander parents easily play with their baby. Based on the results of the preliminary study, two modes were designed to motivate parents to play with their baby, and to support their efforts to do so: (1) baby play supporter; and (2) motivational message notification. A pilot study was conducted (n=6) with the prototype, and the study participants' feedback that can improve the system are reported.

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Ko MMa X(2022)Mobilizing Instrumental Childcare Support for Postpartum Mothers: Needs for and Barriers to Infant-centric Family Informatics Practices in Hong KongProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/35550846:CSCW2(1-40)Online publication date: 11-Nov-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3555084
Song SKim JKang BPark WKim JMandryk RHancock MPerry MCox A(2018)BebeCODEProceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3173574.3174114(1-12)Online publication date: 21-Apr-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3173574.3174114

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PlayBetter: A Phone-based Baby Play Support System for Childcare Bystander Parents
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing

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CHI EA '17: Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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DOI:10.1145/3027063

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Ko MMa X(2022)Mobilizing Instrumental Childcare Support for Postpartum Mothers: Needs for and Barriers to Infant-centric Family Informatics Practices in Hong KongProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/35550846:CSCW2(1-40)Online publication date: 11-Nov-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3555084
Song SKim JKang BPark WKim JMandryk RHancock MPerry MCox A(2018)BebeCODEProceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3173574.3174114(1-12)Online publication date: 21-Apr-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3173574.3174114

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