Admixed portrait: Design to understand facebook portrayals in new parenthood

Abigail Durrant; David Kirk; Diego Trujillo-Pisanty; Sarah Martindale

doi:10.1145/3173574.3173586

Admixed portrait: Design to understand facebook portrayals in new parenthood

Abigail Durrant, David Kirk, Diego Trujillo-Pisanty, Sarah Martindale

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Abstract

We report on a design-led study of the photographic representation of self and family on Facebook during and after becoming parents for the first time. Our experience-centered, research-through-design study engaged eight participants across five UK homes, in a month-long deployment of a prototype technology -- a design research artifact, Admixed Portrait, that served to prompt participant reflection on first-time parenthood. In addition to pre- and post-deployment interviews, participants kept diaries capturing personal reflections during the deployment, on daily social media use and interactions with Admixed. Our qualitative insights on social media representations of transitional experience and identity for new parents, reveal how their online 'photowork' related to self-expression and social functioning. We contribute design considerations for developing tools to support photographic expression in social media use, and methodological insights about design-led inquiry for understanding transitional experiences.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI '18
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Place of Publication	New York, NY, US
Publisher	ACM
Pages	1-14
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450356206
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173586
Publication status	Published - 19 Apr 2018
Event	2018 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Montréal, Canada Duration: 21 Apr 2018 → 26 Apr 2018 https://chi2018.acm.org/

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Conference	2018 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Abbreviated title	CHI 2018
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montréal
Period	21/04/18 → 26/04/18
Internet address	https://chi2018.acm.org/

Keywords

Parenthood
Facebook
Photograph
Identity Transition
Research through Design

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Durrant, A, Kirk, D, Trujillo-Pisanty, D & Martindale, S 2018, Admixed portrait: Design to understand facebook portrayals in new parenthood. in CHI '18: Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 12, ACM, New York, NY, US, pp. 1-14, 2018 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Montréal, Canada, 21/04/18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173586

Admixed portrait: Design to understand facebook portrayals in new parenthood. / Durrant, Abigail; Kirk, David; Trujillo-Pisanty, Diego et al.
CHI '18: Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY, US: ACM, 2018. p. 1-14 12.

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