Supporting Productive Family Joint Media Engagement
Parents play essential roles in children’s engagement with media, especially learning technologies like computational toys and kits. Situated in the context of parent-child co-use of learning technologies, we have done multiple explorations to understand what family joint media engagement looks like and how we can facilitate productive joint media experiences through activity and technology designs. For example, we investigated how parents perceive their children’s use of coding kits, how parents mediate their children’s interaction with the kits, and how different family members negotiate with each other when co-making using creative computing technologies. Building on these explorations, we further aim to advance the theoretical understanding and framing of joint media engagement.
Relevant Publications
Pei, O., Lau, L. Y. M., Luo, Y., & Yu, J. (2025). Intergenerational communication around young children’s upbringing: Tensions and design implications. In Proceedings of the 24th ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC ’25) (pp. 1113–1117). Reykjavík, Iceland. https://doi.org/10.1145/3713043.3731544
Yu, J., Qi, X., & Yang, S. (2024). Parent–child joint media engagement within HCI: A scoping analysis of the research landscape. In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24) (Article 121, pp. 1–21). Honolulu, HI, United States. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642307
Yu, J., Widman, S., & Roque, R. (2023). Family negotiation in joint media engagement with creative computing. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23). Hamburg, Germany. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580667
Yu, J., Granados, J., & Hayden, R., & Roque, R. (2021). Parental facilitation of young children’s technology-based learning experiences from nondominant groups during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proceedings of the ACM on Human–Computer Interaction, 5(CSCW2), Article 307, 1–27. (CSCW ’21). https://doi.org/10.1145/3476048
Yu, J., Devore, A., & Roque, R. (2021). Parental mediation for young children’s use of educational media: A case study with computational toys and kits. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’21). Yokohama, Japan. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445427
Yu, J., Bai, C., & Roque, R. (2020). Considering parents in coding kit design: Understanding parents’ perspectives and roles. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’20). Honolulu, HI, United States. https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376130