PUBLICATIONS
Here's a list of adacemic publications and published lifestyle articles.
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SIG CHI 2022
"I feel like I need to split myself in half": Using Role Theory to Design for Parents as Caregiving Teams in the Children's Hospital.
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) CSCW’22 · Nov 8, 2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3500868.3559466
When their child is hospitalized, parents take on new caregiving roles in addition to their existing home and work-related responsibilities. Previous CSCW research has shown how technologies can support caregiving, but more research is needed to systematically understand how technology could support parents and other family caregivers as they adopt new coordination roles in their collaborations with each other. This paper reports findings from an interview study with parents of children hospitalized for cancer treatment. We used the Role Theory framework from the social sciences to show how parents adopt and enact caregiving roles during hospitalization and the challenges they experience as they adapt to this stressful situation. We show how parents experience 'role strain' as they attempt to divide caregiving work and introduce the concept of 'inter-caregiver information disparity.' We propose design opportunities for caregiving coordination technologies to better support caregiving roles in multi-caregiver teams.
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Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
Designing for Families as Adaptive Systems: Collaborative Emotional Support and Resilience in the Children's Hospital
Association for Computing Machinery (CHI 2022) · Apr 28, 2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3491101.3519787
When a child is admitted to the hospital with a critical illness, their family must adapt and manage care and stress. HCI and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) technologies have shown the potential for collaborative technologies to support and augment care collaboration between patients and caregivers. However, less is known about the potential for collaborative technologies to augment family caregiving circles' experiences, stressors, and adaptation practices, especially during long hospitalization stays. We interviewed 14 parents of children with cancer admitted for extended hospitalizations in this work. We use the Family Adaptive Systems framework from the family therapy fields as a lens to characterize the challenges and practices of families with a hospitalized child. We characterize the four adaptive systems from the theory: Emotion system, Control system, Meaning, and Maintenance system. Then, we focus on the Emotion system, suggesting opportunities for designing future collaborative technology to augment collaborative caregiving and enhance family resilience.
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Published lifestyle articles
