Maintaining Long-Distance Relationships With Children: Exploring Autobiographical Designs And Life Logging

Distance has become inevitable in this modern society. Families are separated temporarily or permanently depending on different contexts as migration, divorce or death. Hence, it becomes a great challenge on parents and children separated through long distance. However, parents struggle to keep intimacy through technology in order to create memorable impacts in the lives of their children. Children have a strong sense of recalling events which contributes to bonding and intimacy after such distant relationships. This paper reflects on the researcher's experience of distant separation to present design opportunities as work in progress for using life logging technologies within this context.