Reflecting on Your Child Needs: Designing a Tangible Object For Enhancing Parental Mentalization

Elior Carsenti; Hadas Erel; Mario Mikulincer; Oren Zuckerman

doi:10.1145/3585088.3593865

Reflecting on Your Child Needs: Designing a Tangible Object For Enhancing Parental Mentalization

Elior Carsenti, Hadas Erel, Mario Mikulincer, Oren Zuckerman

Reichman University

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Abstract

One of the main challenges parents face is recognizing and supporting the changing needs of their children. The Circle of Security (COS) psychology theory addresses this challenge by increasing parental mentalization, a parent’s ability to mentally envision her child’s mental states, and to engage in reflection on her own internal experiences. We present an exploratory design process of a tangible interface for parents of 5-7 years-old children, grounded in theoretical aspects from Attachment theory, Caregiving sensitivity theory, and COS theory. We designed three low-fidelity prototypes and evaluated them with four parents to generate initial insights about the potential of TUI as an aid for parental mentalization. Our work suggests that parents see potential in using a TUI to improve their parental mentalization abilities, however they report it is not easy and requires significant mental effort. Our work is a first step towards TUI as an aid for parental mentalization.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of IDC 2023 - 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference
Subtitle of host publication	Rediscovering Childhood
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	583-587
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9798400701313
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3585088.3593865
State	Published - 19 Jun 2023
Externally published	Yes
Event	22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference: Rediscovering Childhood, IDC 2023 - Chicago, United States Duration: 19 Jun 2023 → 22 Jun 2023

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of IDC 2023 - 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference: Rediscovering Childhood

Conference

Conference	22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference: Rediscovering Childhood, IDC 2023
Country/Territory	United States
City	Chicago
Period	19/06/23 → 22/06/23

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Keywords

Circle of Security
Parent-Child Interaction
TUI
Theory to Design

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Carsenti, E., Erel, H., Mikulincer, M., & Zuckerman, O. (2023). Reflecting on Your Child Needs: Designing a Tangible Object For Enhancing Parental Mentalization. In Proceedings of IDC 2023 - 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference: Rediscovering Childhood (pp. 583-587). (Proceedings of IDC 2023 - 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference: Rediscovering Childhood). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3585088.3593865

Carsenti, Elior ; Erel, Hadas ; Mikulincer, Mario et al. / Reflecting on Your Child Needs : Designing a Tangible Object For Enhancing Parental Mentalization. Proceedings of IDC 2023 - 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference: Rediscovering Childhood. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2023. pp. 583-587 (Proceedings of IDC 2023 - 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference: Rediscovering Childhood).

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Carsenti, E, Erel, H, Mikulincer, M & Zuckerman, O 2023, Reflecting on Your Child Needs: Designing a Tangible Object For Enhancing Parental Mentalization. in Proceedings of IDC 2023 - 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference: Rediscovering Childhood. Proceedings of IDC 2023 - 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference: Rediscovering Childhood, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 583-587, 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference: Rediscovering Childhood, IDC 2023, Chicago, United States, 19/06/23. https://doi.org/10.1145/3585088.3593865

Reflecting on Your Child Needs: Designing a Tangible Object For Enhancing Parental Mentalization. / Carsenti, Elior; Erel, Hadas; Mikulincer, Mario et al.
Proceedings of IDC 2023 - 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference: Rediscovering Childhood. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2023. p. 583-587 (Proceedings of IDC 2023 - 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference: Rediscovering Childhood).

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Carsenti E, Erel H, Mikulincer M, Zuckerman O. Reflecting on Your Child Needs: Designing a Tangible Object For Enhancing Parental Mentalization. In Proceedings of IDC 2023 - 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference: Rediscovering Childhood. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 2023. p. 583-587. (Proceedings of IDC 2023 - 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference: Rediscovering Childhood). doi: 10.1145/3585088.3593865

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