%0 Journal Article %J Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems %D 2002 %T Case study: a message board as a technology probe for family communication and coordination %A Hutchinson,H. %A Plaisant, Catherine %A Druin, Allison %X In this paper, we describe the design of an electronic family message board and the initial results of its deployment in three households. The message board was used as a “technology probe” to help understand the communication and coordination needs of a distributed, multigenerational family. Using this information, we are working with the family as design partners to design new technologies. %B Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems %8 2002/// %G eng