Group Members
Justin Helbert
Joe Henke
Ken Siebert
Parker Tew
Problem Statement
We define content to be pictures and videos parents take of their children, often accompanied by text to give some context. Typically content is created through a digital camera or an iPhone. Content is typically used to share amongst family members or privately viewed later. Email is a common mechanism for sharing content.
We found there to be two main problems.
Owning another person’s content
- Parents are in the unique situation of essentially managing everything in their children’s lives when they are young
- This extends to the digital world as well
- Young children are incapable of managing the digital content of themselves, something typically not encountered elsewhere
- Therefore, parents inherit the responsibility of managing their children’s content
Co-Owning Content
- Parents, therefore, must manage the same content
- This leads to dependence upon one parent to do so
- Disallowing one parent to handle content only hinders use of the content
- It makes it harder for both parents to aggregate content
- Doing anything with the content is more difficult for the passive parent
- There is a lack of communication regarding what content is stored and how it can be used