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Supporting from the Background: How a Mobile Application for Parent Skills Development Encourages Authoritative Parenting

Authors:

Rebecca M. Jonas,

Benjamin V. Hanrahan,

Carlie J. Sloan,

Gregory M. FoscoAuthors Info & Claims

CSCW '23 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2023 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

Pages 105 - 111

https://doi.org/10.1145/3584931.3606969

Published: 14 October 2023 Publication History

Abstract

In this paper, we describe initial findings of a usability evaluation of a mobile parenting app for families with adolescents. We designed and built a mobile app to support healthy family dynamics through behavioral parent management and skills development, intended to serve as an accessible alternative to traditional intervention programs. We conducted semi-structured interviews and usability evaluations of our app with seven families with adolescents. Interviews centered around modules in the app for planning and maintaining adolescents’ morning routine and monitoring adolescents’ activities and whereabouts. While the app was not designed to support a specific parenting style, findings demonstrated the app’s potential to encourage authoritative parenting by balancing adolescent autonomy with parental support and monitoring. By modeling parental monitoring around communication-based information solicitation and disclosure rather than tracking and surveillance, we also found that the app could help to diffuse parent-adolescent conflict and tension.

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Supporting from the Background: How a Mobile Application for Parent Skills Development Encourages Authoritative Parenting
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. HCI design and evaluation methods
      1. User studies

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Lustig CKaneko MGupta MDattani KDesjardins ARosner D(2024)Porous by Design: How Childcare Platforms Impact Worker Personhood, Safety, and ConnectionProceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference10.1145/3643834.3661552(1336-1349)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2024
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