Parental Collaboration and Closeness: A Co-Design Exploration with New Couple Parents

Ya-Fang Lin, Xiaotian Li, Wan-Hsuan Huang, Charan Pushpanathan Prabavathi, Jie Cai, John M. Carroll

CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025 [Under Review]

Existing technologies support parenting and collaboration but inadequately address closeness between co-parents, prompting an investigation through 10 co-design workshops with new parent couples. The study examined parents' current technology use, their adaptation of technologies for fostering closeness and interdependence, and identified opportunities for technology to better support emotional connection in co-parenting.