Date&Time: October 4th, Sunday, 14:00 - 17:30 (CEST)
Room: TBD
Room: TBD
Exploring Collaborative Technologies for Parents and their Wider Care Ecosystems
Motivation
Early parenthood is a profound life transition involving physical, emtional, relational and logistical changes. Across conception, pregnancy, childbirth, and the first years of parenting, care responsibilities are continuously negotiated across parents and their care ecosystems, including families, healthcare professionals, workplaces, peer communities, and wider social infrastructures.
In Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Personal Informatics (PI), there is growing interest in the design of technologies to support parenting during a period of profound life changes. Yet, current technologies remain centered on individual users, often mothers, and poorly support the distributed nature of early parenthood. Technologies for reproductive health and parenting primarily focus on individual's needs, providing limited support for shared use, coordination, or mutual understanding between stakeholders. This framing risks reinforcing gendered expectations around parenting while overlooking wider care relationships.
Workshop
Join our half-day workshop, we aim to bring together interdisciplinary HCI researchers and designers working on or interested in early parenthood technologies to:
Creatively explore how we can design technologies for colloboration within the broader social ecosystem of early parenthood
Discuss existing challenges and future directions
Establish a network for furture research collaborations and publications
Important Dates
Position Paper Deadline: August 2nd, Sunday, AoE
Acceptance Notification: August 7th, Friday, AoE
Workshop Date & Time: October 4th, Sunday, 14:00 - 17:30, CEST
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