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      eKISS: Sharing Experiences in Families Through a Picture Blog

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      Proceedings of HCI 2007 The 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference University of Lancaster, UK (HCI)
      British HCI Group Annual Conference
      3 - 7 September 2007
      Children, parents, intimacy, mediated intimacy, picture sharing, blog
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            Contemporary family life can be very stressful and many families are often busy and separated by time or distance. Physical separation makes it difficult to maintain an awareness of each other and the feeling of intimacy. But lack of such intimacy can result in insecure and troubled children. This paper outlines eKISS, a picture weblog for mediating intimacy between children and parents. eKISS supports asynchronous sharing of experiences from the children to their parents while being physically separated. Communication is based on pictures and text sent through mobile technology and shared on a weblog available to the family. A longitudinal field evaluation revealed that eKISS was able to support acts of intimacy by providing insight, new communication channel, and the possibility to easily share experiences. It also revealed that eKISS was most useful when the family was separated for longer periods of time.

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            Conference
            September 2007
            September 2007
            : 1-10
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            [0001]Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University

            Selma Lagerløfsvej 300, DK-9220 Aalborg East, Denmark
            Article
            10.14236/ewic/HCI2007.7
            9d0404fd-cf39-45e2-baa7-7adc416f2f36
            © Thomas Dalsgaard et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of HCI 2007 The 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference University of Lancaster, UK

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            Proceedings of HCI 2007 The 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference University of Lancaster, UK
            HCI
            21
            Lancaster, UK
            3 - 7 September 2007
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            British HCI Group Annual Conference
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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            Electronic Workshops in Computing

            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction
            Children,parents,intimacy,mediated intimacy,picture sharing,blog

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