Summary
To explore the nature of familial interactions through video conferencing, this research designed a media space, called Family Portals, which was deployed to provide shared video that permitted sharing everyday life over extended periods of time between multiple locations – specifically in the homes of six families.
Discussion
It was interesting to see how multiple families could connect over distance, maintaining an awareness of one another and participating in shared activities, thus enhancing the familial connections they feel by seeing each other through the concept of media spaces. I would argue with the final results which indicated that media space increased feelings of connectedness between the triadic spaces, because it is hard to find an accurate measure of connectedness, or closeness, in shared human spaces. A key consideration would have been to measure the exact nature of the real-life or face-to-face relationships, albeit in dyadic or triadic connections, and to find ways to replicate this in the multi-media space. This could help in alleviating the privacy challenges which the researchers identified.
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