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Parenting with Alexa: Exploring the Introduction of Smart Speakers on Family Dynamics

Smart speakers have become pervasive in family homes, creating the potential for these devices to influence parent-child dynamics and parenting behaviors. We investigate the impact of introducing a smart speaker to 10 families with children, over four weeks. We use pre- and post- deployment interviews with the whole family and in-home audio capture of parent-child interactions with the smart speaker for our analysis. Despite the smart speaker causing occasional conflict in the home, we observed that parents lever-aged the smart speaker to further parenting goals. We found three forms of influence the smart speaker has on family dynamics: 1) fostering communication, 2) disrupting access, and 3) augmenting parenting. All of these influences arise from a communally accessible, stand-alone voice interface which democratizes family access to technology. We discuss design implications in furthering parenting practices and behaviors as the capabilities of the technology continue to improve.

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Erin Beneteau

Ashley Boone

Yuxing Wu

Julie A. Kientz

Jason Yip

Alexis Hiniker

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Projects in Human-Computer Interaction

  • Leveraging Collaborative Filtering for Personalized Behavior Modeling: A Case Study on Depression Detection among College Students
  • On the Steppe: Plain Talk Imagining Technology Used Wisely
  • Using Everyday Routines for Understanding Health Behaviors
  • When Screen Time Isn’t Screen Time: Tensions and Needs Between Tweens and Their Parents During Nature-based Exploration
  • Falx: Synthesis-Powered Visualization Authoring
  • What Makes People Join Conspiracy Communities? Role of Social Factors in Conspiracy Engagement
  • Visually Encoding Personal Data for Vulnerable Populations
  • Who Are You Asking?: Qualitative Methods for Involving AAC Users as Primary Research Participants
  • Where Are My Parents?: Information Needs of Hospitalized Children
  • Parenting with Alexa: Exploring the Introduction of Smart Speakers on Family Dynamics
  • “Eavesdropping”: An Information Source for Inpatients
  • Detecting Depression and Predicting its Onset Using Longitudinal Symptoms Captured by Passive Sensing: A Machine Learning Approach With Robust Feature Selection
  • Mobile Assessment of Acute Effects of Marijuana on Cognitive Functioning in Young Adults: Observational Study
  • Telling Stories: On Culturally Responsive Artificial Intelligence
  • What Makes People Join Conspiracy Communities?: Role of Social Factors in Conspiracy Engagement
  • Early adopters of a low vision head-mounted assistive technology
  • Being (In)Visible: Privacy, Transparency, and Disclosure in the Self-Management of Bipolar Disorder
  • Visualizing Personal Rhythms: A Critical Visual Analysis of Mental Health in Flux

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iSchool research helps neurodivergent people succeed on the job

Monday, November 27, 2023
Sock wrangler Chelsie Fonseca does a little of everything at John’s Crazy Socks, an online retailer and social enterprise that features thousands of pairs of quirky socks. She packs the Happiness Gift Boxes and does the gift wrapping....
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iSchool's Chirag Shah honored for information behavior research

Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Information School Professor Chirag Shah is the recipient of this year’s ASIS&T SIG USE Outstanding Contributions to Information Behavior Research Award, which recognizes one scholar each year for their body of work in the...
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