Baby steps: evaluation of a system to support record-keeping for parents of young children Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:4446453, abstract = {Parents of young children often want to keep a variety of records on their children's early years, for the purposes of preservation of memories or at the request of their pediatrician. However, time constraints, motivation, and forgetfulness may hinder their ability to keep consistent records. We developed a system, Baby Steps, which is designed to improve the record-keeping process. In this paper, we present the results of a 3-month deployment study of this technology with 8 families and their pediatricians. The study showed that when compared to a control condition, experimental design features of Baby Steps encouraged parents to more frequently collect and review records, provided higher confidence in reporting, and improved parent-pediatrician communication.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Kientz, Julie A. and Arriaga, Rosa I. and Abowd, Gregory D.}, booktitle = {CHI '09: Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems}, citeulike-article-id = {4446453}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1518701.1518965}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1518701.1518965}, doi = {10.1145/1518701.1518965}, isbn = {978-1-60558-246-7}, keywords = {autism, children, parents}, location = {Boston, MA, USA}, pages = {1713--1722}, posted-at = {2009-04-30 22:39:01}, priority = {5}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Baby steps: evaluation of a system to support record-keeping for parents of young children}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1518701.1518965}, year = {2009} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:4446453 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4446453 N2 - Parents of young children often want to keep a variety of records on their children's early years, for the purposes of preservation of memories or at the request of their pediatrician. However, time constraints, motivation, and forgetfulness may hinder their ability to keep consistent records. We developed a system, Baby Steps, which is designed to improve the record-keeping process. In this paper, we present the results of a 3-month deployment study of this technology with 8 families and their pediatricians. The study showed that when compared to a control condition, experimental design features of Baby Steps encouraged parents to more frequently collect and review records, provided higher confidence in reporting, and improved parent-pediatrician communication. CY - Boston, MA, USA SN - 978-1-60558-246-7 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 1722 TI - Baby steps: evaluation of a system to support record-keeping for parents of young children PB - ACM T2 - CHI '09: Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems SP - 1713 KW - autism KW - children KW - parents AU - Kientz, Julie AU - Arriaga, Rosa AU - Abowd, Gregory PY - 2009/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1518701.1518965 ER -