Join us for an interactive workshop on Designing for Early Parenthood Together at NordiCHI 2026!

 

Early parenthood is a profound life transition involving physical, emotional, relational, and logistical changes. Across conception, pregnancy, childbirth, and the first years of parenting, care responsibilities are continuously negotiated across parents and their care ecosystems. Yet current technologies remain centered on individual users, often mothers, providing limited support for shared use, coordination, or mutual understanding between stakeholders.

 

In our workshop, Designing For Early Parenthood Together, we will explore how technologies can better support shared care, coordination, mutual understanding, and responsibility distribution across early parenthood. Through rapid research exchange, collective reflection, and speculative co-design activities, participants will discuss key tensions around care, privacy, trust, inclusion, emotional labor, and stakeholder roles.

 

Through the workshop, we aim to identify future research directions and build a network for continued collaboration around early parenthood technologies.

 

Workshop Info

When: 4 October 2026, 14:00–17:30 CEST

Where: NordiCHI 2026 in Vaasa, Finland

Submission deadline: 2 August 2026, AoE

 

For more information about our workshop activities and how to participate, please see our workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/designingforearlyparenthood/home

 

We look forward to seeing you in Vaasa!

 

Best regards,

Alice Benedetti, Lina Eklund, Sophie Grimme, Tora Jarsve, Ya-Fang Lin, Meagan Loerakker, Lena Rechberger, Xiaofei Sun, and Nadine Wagener