Family communication: phone conversations with children

Families in society-The journal of contemporary social services, 2019

Frequent, rich language experiences are essential for all young children's development-particularly those living in poverty (Hart & Risley, 1995) and those with delays or disabilities (Caskey & Vohr, 2013; Warren et al., 2010). With regard to communication development, decades of research suggest that environments for young children should be language rich, provide opportunities for children to hear vocabulary (

2012

New technologies are radically changing the way that families connect with one another: we can text our teenagers from work, eat dinner with far-away parents via video link, and instantly upload and share photos after a family day out. Whether we are bridging time or distance, and whether we are enhancing our closest relationships or strengthening the bonds of extended family, as computer technologies alter the communication landscape, they in turn are changing the way we conduct and experience family life. This state of the art volume explores the impact of new communication systems on how families interact how they share their lives and routines, engage in social touch, and negotiate being together or being apart by considering a range of different family relationships that shape the nature of communication. Composed of three sections, the first looks at what is often the core of a family, the couple, to understand the impact of technology on couple relationships, communication, a...

Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal

This study aims to determine the importance of new media and its effectiveness in communication between parent-child. These findings demonstrate that new media technology is essential nowadays between parent and child communication. Responses from the survey indicate that communicating with family members is very effective with smartphones using applications to converse with each other. The importance of communication towards family is prioritized over individual needs. In family communication, new media has helped parents and children connect in some way or another and allows a closer connection among them. Keywords: new media, communication eISSN: 2398-4287 © 2022. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Assoc...

Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 1997

The telephone plays an important role in modern life, but little research has been conducted to understand the development of children's telephone communication. This study investigated children's use of the telephone for communicative purposes. Children from 3 to 8 years of age and adults were first asked to solve a simple puzzle, and then encouraged to convey the solution to an adult who was either present (the in-person condition), or in another location at a telephone (the telephone condition). The adequacy of the participants' instructions, as well as referential adaptation, were examined in both conditions. Both age and condition effects, and the interaction between age and condition were found to impact significantly on the adequacy of participants' instructions. Overoll, the adequacy of children's instructions increased from an absence of much crucial information at age 3 to 4 years to nearly all required explicit information by age 7 to 8 years. Further, children's instructions were more adequate over the telephone than in person, whereas this difference was less apparent in adults. Both children and adults adapted their instructions by providing more specific referential information in the telephone condition. By contrast, in the in-person condition, children employed visual checking while instructing the listener, suggesting that instructional adequacy and adaptation are not the only criteria for better communication. Children, like adults, communicate differently in the two contexts. Given the increased adequacy of the children's instructions when cued by a telephone, it is speculated that the telephone could serve as an effective educational medium for language facilitation with young children. Although the telephone has been viewed as a transformative technology in western society, only a small number of studies have been conducted to examine the impact of the telephone on child development

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2015

Computer-mediated communication (CMC) has been a longstanding focus of study in the fields of HCI and CSCW dating back to the first incarnations of the media space in the early 1980s [4]. Since then, this research sphere has explored many different

2014

Today more and more teenagers are adopting cell phone communication as the primary way to communicate with their peers and parents . Literature is vast on the negative use of cell phones by teenagers such as sexting and bullying (e.g., Draper, 2012) and on the negative implications it has on them and their relationships with peers (e.g., D'Antona, . However, it is very limited in exploring how cell phone use affects parent-adolescent communication. To investigate this question, ten parentadolescent dyads who have used cell phones for more than six months participated in 25-40 minute interviews consisting of 14 open-ended questions about how they use cell phones to communicate. The teenagers' ages ranged from 14 to 18 years of age and the average age of the teenagers was 16.6 years. Transcripts of interviews were analyzed for main themes. I found that parents and teenagers text each other more than call each other. They use cell phones to communicate for practical reasons, such as safety/checking in with each other, as well as for relational reasons, such as staying in touch with each other at a distance and sharing fun information with each other. These devices help the parents and adolescents be available to each other, facilitate quick yet flexible response times, and allow parents to teach responsibility. However, they also face challenges of overuse, which can hinder parent-adolescent communication, and can lead to miscommunication. The results of this study can be used by Family Life Educators to help new parent and teen cell phone users to learn about the benefits of cell phones as well as some of the expected challenges and help them get the most out of their cell phone communication.

Over the last decade, research in the CHI and CSCW communities has expanded in scope to move away from a solely-workplace focus to investigations of the ways in which family members appropriate and make use of technology as a part of domestic life. Our research premise is ‘the home is not the office’; in order to understand how to design technology to fit within and extend the routines of family members, one must carefully consider the intricate nuances of domestic life, including family and friend relationships and the everyday routines people employ. Within this space, our research broadly focuses on the study and design of ubiquitous and mobile technologies for family members. This has included the study of communication and awareness needs for families [1,7], family calendars [8-10], family photo sharing [11,13], and video communication systems for families [2-4,6,13]. We are now building on this research to explore: connecting family members over distance in situations where technology may be limited, the design of systems for families to share health information, and the design of technologies focused on mobile shopping.

International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications (IJSRP), 2020

The mobile telephony has gained momentum and is one of the defining communication technologies of the time. This paper interrogates the adoption of mobile telephony from varied scholars' perspectives. The insights are from the youth's uses of this communication technology while looking at how this use has impacted on family communication. The mobile phone is seen to have structured certain interaction behaviors in the youth among them a decreased desire for the face to face interaction. This was observed from the youth's continued display of addiction to social media. One of the important observations is that that uses of mobile phones to a great extent have altered the way families interact and have generated certain negative interactive behaviors. Nonetheless, this paper does not demonize mobile telephony but implores for appropriate usage of the communication technology.

Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Siblings play a crucial and long-lasting role in family connections and relationships. However, with the older sibling transitioning out of their parental home, maintaining a close sibling relationship can be challenging, especially if siblings have a large age difference. We conducted a diary and interview study with nine families in China which have spaced siblings, to identify design opportunities for technology to better support their communication and connection needs. We contribute to the HCI community in three aspects. First, we contribute an empirical understanding of current communication patterns from distributed families with large age gap siblings in China. Second, we identify current facilitation roles, practices, and challenges regarding sibling relationships from different stakeholders' perspectives. Last but not least, we present technological opportunities for supporting the large-gap sibling relationship, informing directions for future research and design for distributed families. CCS CONCEPTS • Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in HCI; Empirical studies in collaborative and social computing; • Social and professional topics → Children.