Life Transitions and Social Technologies: Research and Design for Times of Life Change

Oliver L. Haimson; Bryan Semaan; Brianna Dym; Joey Chiao-yin Hsiao; Daniel Herron; Wendy Moncur

doi:10.1145/3311957.3359431

Life Transitions and Social Technologies: Research and Design for Times of Life Change

Oliver L. Haimson, Bryan Semaan, Brianna Dym, Joey Chiao-yin Hsiao, Daniel Herron, Wendy Moncur

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Abstract

When people experience major changes in their lives (e.g., relationship changes, transition from high school to college, realizing an LGBTQ identity, etc.), they often turn to social technologies to help navigate shifting identities and networks and find support and resources. People's experiences using social technologies during times of life transition, and how to better design such technologies, has been a major focus of social computing research. This workshop will gather researchers working in this space to discuss eight themes: life events vs. processes; changing identities; multiple overlapping life events; physical and digital transitions; technology non-use during life transitions; liminality framework; theoretical frames; and methodological considerations. Collaboratively, we will 1) synergize insights from workshop organizers' and participants' research to determine how social technologies can be designed to better support people during life transitions and 2) outline an agenda for the future of social computing work on life transitions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CSCW '19 Conference Companion Publication of the 2019 on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
Editors	Eric Gilbert, Karrie Karahalios
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	480-485
Number of pages	6
Volume	CSCW '19
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450366922
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3311957.3359431
Publication status	Published - 9 Nov 2019
Event	Conference Companion Publication of the 2019 - Austin, TX, USA Duration: 9 Nov 2019 → 13 Nov 2019

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Name	Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Conference

Conference	Conference Companion Publication of the 2019
Period	9/11/19 → 13/11/19

Keywords

Life transitions
social technologies
social media
online identity
technology design
research methods
Online identity
Social media
Technology design
Research methods
Social technologies

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Networks and Communications

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Haimson, O. L., Semaan, B., Dym, B., Hsiao, J. C., Herron, D., & Moncur, W. (2019). Life Transitions and Social Technologies: Research and Design for Times of Life Change. In E. Gilbert, & K. Karahalios (Eds.), CSCW '19 Conference Companion Publication of the 2019 on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (Vol. CSCW '19, pp. 480-485). (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3311957.3359431

Haimson, Oliver L. ; Semaan, Bryan ; Dym, Brianna et al. / Life Transitions and Social Technologies : Research and Design for Times of Life Change. CSCW '19 Conference Companion Publication of the 2019 on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. editor / Eric Gilbert ; Karrie Karahalios . Vol. CSCW '19 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2019. pp. 480-485 (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW).

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Haimson, OL, Semaan, B, Dym, B, Hsiao, JC, Herron, D & Moncur, W 2019, Life Transitions and Social Technologies: Research and Design for Times of Life Change. in E Gilbert & K Karahalios (eds), CSCW '19 Conference Companion Publication of the 2019 on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. vol. CSCW '19, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 480-485, Conference Companion Publication of the 2019, 9/11/19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3311957.3359431

Life Transitions and Social Technologies: Research and Design for Times of Life Change. / Haimson, Oliver L.; Semaan, Bryan; Dym, Brianna et al.
CSCW '19 Conference Companion Publication of the 2019 on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. ed. / Eric Gilbert; Karrie Karahalios . Vol. CSCW '19 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2019. p. 480-485 (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW).

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Haimson OL, Semaan B, Dym B, Hsiao JC, Herron D, Moncur W. Life Transitions and Social Technologies: Research and Design for Times of Life Change. In Gilbert E, Karahalios K, editors, CSCW '19 Conference Companion Publication of the 2019 on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Vol. CSCW '19. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2019. p. 480-485. (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW). doi: 10.1145/3311957.3359431

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