5. A. FORGHANI
Information acquired: 2025
A. FORGHANI is an academic who published a paper in 2015 entitled Sharing Domestic Life through Long-Term Video Connections. A. FORGHANI published this work as part of a team: Neustaedter, C.. Here is a description of this work: Video chat systems such as Skype, Google+ Hangouts, and FaceTime have been widely adopted by family members and friends to connect with one another over distance. We have conducted a corpus of studies that explore how various demographics make use of such video chat systems where this usage moves beyond the paradigm of conversational support to one in which aspects of everyday life are shared over long periods of time, sometimes in an almost passive manner. We describe and reflect on studies of long-distance couples, teenagers, and major life events, along with design research focused on new video communication systems--the Family Window, Family Portals, and Perch--that explicitly support.