Communicative Openness within Adoptive Families: The Role of Photos and Visual Communication

Thomas Dylan; Daniel Harrison; Abigail Durrant

doi:10.1145/3532106.3533513

Communicative Openness within Adoptive Families: The Role of Photos and Visual Communication

Thomas Dylan, Daniel Harrison, Abigail Durrant

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Abstract

HCI has a long history of designing to support family life, despite this little is known about the unique needs of adoptive families. Though work has explored the role of photos, and photo sharing in the family home, this does not take account
of the essential role of photos in supporting the well-being of adopted children. We report on a Research through Design (RtD) project investigating how adoptive parents communicate life story, which is essential to a child’s sense of identity. In this pictorial, we show the role of photos and visual communication in enabling core aspects of communicative openness between parent and child, as derived from interviews with adopters about their child’s life story book. We conclude by discussing the need for visual guidelines and tools to support a more nuanced use of photos and illustrations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	DIS 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Subtitle of host publication	Digital Wellbeing
Editors	Florian `Floyd' Mueller, Stefan Greuter, Rohit Ashok Khot, Penny Sweetser, Marianna Obrist
Place of Publication	New York, US
Publisher	ACM
Pages	807–820
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450393584
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3532106.3533513
Publication status	Published - 13 Jun 2022
Event	DIS '22: Designing Interactive Systems Conference - Online, Online, Australia Duration: 13 Jun 2022 → 17 Jun 2022 https://dis.acm.org/2022/ https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3532106

Conference

Conference	DIS '22
Abbreviated title	DIS '22
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Online
Period	13/06/22 → 17/06/22
Internet address	https://dis.acm.org/2022/ https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3532106

Keywords

Adoptive families
life story
narrative identity
photos
visual communication

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Dylan, T., Harrison, D., & Durrant, A. (2022). Communicative Openness within Adoptive Families: The Role of Photos and Visual Communication. In F. F. Mueller, S. Greuter, R. A. Khot, P. Sweetser, & M. Obrist (Eds.), DIS 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference: Digital Wellbeing (pp. 807–820). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3532106.3533513

Dylan, Thomas ; Harrison, Daniel ; Durrant, Abigail. / Communicative Openness within Adoptive Families : The Role of Photos and Visual Communication. DIS 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference: Digital Wellbeing. editor / Florian `Floyd' Mueller ; Stefan Greuter ; Rohit Ashok Khot ; Penny Sweetser ; Marianna Obrist. New York, US : ACM, 2022. pp. 807–820

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Dylan, T , Harrison, D & Durrant, A 2022, Communicative Openness within Adoptive Families: The Role of Photos and Visual Communication. in FF Mueller, S Greuter, RA Khot, P Sweetser & M Obrist (eds), DIS 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference: Digital Wellbeing. ACM, New York, US, pp. 807–820, DIS '22, Online, Australia, 13/06/22. https://doi.org/10.1145/3532106.3533513

Communicative Openness within Adoptive Families: The Role of Photos and Visual Communication. / Dylan, Thomas ; Harrison, Daniel; Durrant, Abigail.
DIS 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference: Digital Wellbeing. ed. / Florian `Floyd' Mueller; Stefan Greuter; Rohit Ashok Khot; Penny Sweetser; Marianna Obrist. New York, US: ACM, 2022. p. 807–820.

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