Scott Davidoff, Anind K. Dey & John Zimmerman. (in submission). Adding place and time to family calendars. In submission to the 9th International ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '12).

To help busy dual-income families gain a feeling of control over their lives, we introduce the Person-Place-Time-View (PPTV) a calendar that promotes person, place and time to first class objects, visualizing where and when everyone in a family will be. In 2 experience prototyping studies parents report that they can make sense of the PPTV’s dense visual form. They also report that the PPTV provides them with high-level view of their day that can help them avoid creating impossible-to-complete plans. Surveys indicate that the PPTV helps parents feel more effective at their jobs as parents, and ultimately more in control of their lives.

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