TY - GEN
T1 - Designing for reflection and collaboration to support a transition from welfare to work
AU - Colineau, Nathalie
AU - Paris, Cécile
AU - Nepal, Surya
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Online support groups have proven to be very effective, in the health domain in particular, to provide their members with social, emotional and moral support. Drawing from this success, we are exploring the use of an online community to build a support group for parents currently in receipt of income support but needing to transition to find a job. Complementing the financial and informational support offered through existing welfare transition programs, our work aims to help people improve their prospect of finding a job to become financially self-sufficient and develop a support network to help them in their transition back to work. In this paper, we present the design of a journey of reflection and collaboration to encourage reflective thinking and foster relationships between community members.
AB - Online support groups have proven to be very effective, in the health domain in particular, to provide their members with social, emotional and moral support. Drawing from this success, we are exploring the use of an online community to build a support group for parents currently in receipt of income support but needing to transition to find a job. Complementing the financial and informational support offered through existing welfare transition programs, our work aims to help people improve their prospect of finding a job to become financially self-sufficient and develop a support network to help them in their transition back to work. In this paper, we present the design of a journey of reflection and collaboration to encourage reflective thinking and foster relationships between community members.
KW - Collaborative work
KW - Online communities
KW - Reflective thinking
KW - Welfare
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84874848163&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2441776.2441830
DO - 10.1145/2441776.2441830
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781450313315
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
SP - 471
EP - 476
BT - CSCW 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
T2 - 2013 2nd ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW 2013
Y2 - 23 February 2013 through 27 February 2013
ER -