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Connecting Families by Sharing the Minutiae of their Lives
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Date Issued
2008-08
Date Available
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Abstract
Recent studies have shown that in distributed families keeping in touch is essential; this calls for technologies that can connect family members and bring them closer virtually. There are several social networking technologies online, but they are seldom designed for family connectedness and do not cater for the needs of computer-novice relatives. We present Near Dear, an application that brings online tools to an ambient display at home. The ambient display makes it easy for computer-novices to update and access online networking tools. We also conducted a user trial and evaluation of this system which indicated that the developed system is convenient and intuitive.
Sponsorship
Science Foundation Ireland
Other Sponsorship
Online Dublin Computer Science Summer School
Type of Material
Technical Report
Publisher
University College Dublin. School of Computer Science and Informatics
Series
UCD CSI Technical Reports
ucd-csi-2008-5
Copyright (Published Version)
2008 the Authors
Language
English
Status of Item
Not peer reviewed
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
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