@inproceedings{83f0f1353fff42f5a05b0d89e68e401a,
title = "Supporting from the Background: How a Mobile Application for Parent Skills Development Encourages Authoritative Parenting",
abstract = "In this paper, we describe initial findings of a usability evaluation of a mobile parenting app for families with adolescents. We designed and built a mobile app to support healthy family dynamics through behavioral parent management and skills development, intended to serve as an accessible alternative to traditional intervention programs. We conducted semi-structured interviews and usability evaluations of our app with seven families with adolescents. Interviews centered around modules in the app for planning and maintaining adolescents' morning routine and monitoring adolescents' activities and whereabouts. While the app was not designed to support a specific parenting style, findings demonstrated the app's potential to encourage authoritative parenting by balancing adolescent autonomy with parental support and monitoring. By modeling parental monitoring around communication-based information solicitation and disclosure rather than tracking and surveillance, we also found that the app could help to diffuse parent-adolescent conflict and tension.",
author = "Jonas, {Rebecca M.} and Hanrahan, {Benjamin V.} and Sloan, {Carlie J.} and Fosco, {Gregory M.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023 ACM.; 26th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2023 ; Conference date: 14-10-2023 Through 18-10-2023",
year = "2023",
month = oct,
day = "14",
doi = "10.1145/3584931.3606969",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "105--111",
editor = "Morgan Ames and Susan Fussell and Eric Gilbert and Vera Liao and Xiaojuan Ma and Xinru Page and Mark Rouncefield and Vivek Singh and Pamela Wisniewski",
booktitle = "CSCW 2023 Companion - Conference Companion Publication of the 2023 Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing",
}