PlayBetter: A phone-based baby play support system for childcare bystander parents

Abstract

The parents' balanced participation in childcare is important for a child's intellectual and emotional growth. In many countries, however, there are many families where one parent is the primary caregiver and the other is just a bystander in terms of caring for their baby because of the latter's ignorance in and indifference to childcare as well as work exhaustion. In this work, we present a prototype called