Sense me: Supporting awareness in parent-child relationships through mobile sensing

TL;DR

Sense{} is a mobile app that uses device sensors to help parents monitor their children's physical, verbal, and social activities, fostering awareness and communication about their wellbeing and educational progress.

Contribution

It introduces a novel mobile sensing system that combines multiple sensor data types to support parent-child awareness and communication in educational and social contexts.

Findings

Supports parental awareness of children's activities

Facilitates communication between parents and teachers

Integrates multiple sensor data for contextual insights

Abstract

We introduce Sense{\mu} (pronounced "sense me"), a mobile application that aims at supporting awareness in parent- child relationships through the sensing capabilities of mobile devices. We discuss the relevance of three types of awareness information: physical activity inferred from accelerometers, verbal activity during class hours inferred from microphones, and social activity inferred from Bluetooth pair-wise proximity sensing. We describe how we attempt to contextualize these sensing data with the goal of supporting parents' awareness of the educational performance and social wellbeing of their children, as well as motivating and sustaining a two-way communication between parents and teachers over the long term.