Parenting Journal · Volume 2 · Issue 5 · Parenting and AI II

Collaboration

Parent–child co-use, participatory design and connections between families, learning and care.

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Vol. 2 · Issue 5 · Collaboration · Qualitative interview study

Parental adjustment to AI learning tools during the preschool-to-primary transition: a qualitative study in China

How can we revisit an AI learning routine together when school and family demands change?

First grade, with mothers recalling the preceding preschool periodCC BY 4.0Mixed AI learning apps as described by caregivers; not a verified trial of a particular LLMDirect parenting evidence
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Vol. 2 · Issue 5 · Collaboration · Participatory co-design/design-fiction study

Pathways to family-centered healthcare: co-designing AI solutions with families in pediatric rehabilitation

If our family helped design an AI care tool, which daily problem and relationship should it support first?

Children 5–14 yearsCC BY 4.0Hypothetical AI rehabilitation assistant and design fiction; no deployed LLM or effectiveness trialDirect parenting evidence
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Vol. 2 · Issue 5 · Collaboration · Three family interaction/elicitation studies

Speed Dating with Voice User Interfaces: Understanding How Families Interact and Perceive Voice User Interfaces in a Group Setting

What happens to our conversation when several family members share a voice assistant?

Participants 4–69 years; family groups included children and adultsCC BY 4.0Earlier commercial voice assistants and embodied social robot; not contemporary open-ended LLM chatDirect parenting evidence
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Vol. 2 · Issue 5 · Collaboration · Two-phase feasibility randomized controlled trial

Development and Feasibility of a Family-Based Health Behavior Intervention Using Intelligent Personal Assistants: Randomized Controlled Trial

Would an assistant’s reminders fit our shared health routine, and would we actually use its health features?

Children 5–12 yearsCC BY 4.0Earlier commercial speech/NLP personal assistant with configured prompts; not an LLM health coachDirect parenting evidence
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Vol. 2 · Issue 5 · Collaboration · Mixed-methods chatbot development and feasibility study

Development and feasibility testing of an artificially intelligent chatbot to answer immunization-related queries of caregivers in Pakistan: A mixed-methods study

What should a vaccination chatbot answer itself, and when should our family reach a person?

Caregivers of children 0–24 months at recruitmentCC BY 4.0Earlier intent-classification/NLP chatbot with human handoff; not generative LLM adviceDirect parenting evidence
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Vol. 2 · Issue 5 · Collaboration · Mixed-methods caregiver expectation study

Caregiver Expectations of Interfacing With Voice Assistants to Support Complex Home Care: Mixed Methods Study

Which pieces of care coordination would we welcome an assistant helping with, and which decisions should it leave to us?

Child ages not reported; child-care subset within a mixed caregiving sampleCC BY 4.0Hypothetical speech/NLP voice-assistant support; no deployed LLM or measured care effectFamily implications
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Vol. 2 · Issue 5 · Collaboration · Exploratory mixed-methods online survey

Patient and Family Perspectives on Generative AI Tools in Rare Diseases: Exploratory Mixed Methods Online Survey

How can we bring an AI-generated rare-disease question into a productive conversation with our child’s care team?

Parents/guardians of children with rare diseases plus adult patients; child ages not specifiedCC BY 4.0Consumer generative AI/LLM tools reported by patients and parents; observational use, not clinical validationDirect parenting evidence
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Vol. 2 · Issue 5 · Collaboration · Two-phase multicomponent feasibility pilot with pre/post measurements

The ENDORSE Feasibility Study: Exploring the Use of M-Health, Artificial Intelligence and Serious Games for the Management of Childhood Obesity

Where would personalized messages help our family’s care plan, and where is direct contact with the care team more useful?

Children 6–14 years; mean 10.5 yearsCC BY 4.0Narrow AI personalization/recommendation within a multicomponent care platform; not an LLMDirect parenting evidence
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Vol. 2 · Issue 5 · Collaboration · Participatory development and mixed-methods pilot study

Participatory Development and Pilot Testing of an Adolescent Health Promotion Chatbot

If an adolescent helps choose a health chatbot, how can their priorities shape its language, boundaries, and human support?

Adolescents 12–15 yearsCC BY (version not stated)Earlier intent-based NLP conversational agent with authored responses; not generative AIChild-facing evidence
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Vol. 2 · Issue 5 · Collaboration · Human-centered design and qualitative parent/nurse study

Creating a Parent-Informed Pediatric Emergency Department Wait Time App: Human-Centered Design Approach to Creating an AI Health Care Tool

How can our family’s experience help a care service decide what information an AI tool should provide?

Children under 1–18 years; median seven yearsCC BY 4.0Narrow predictive machine learning and NLP in a deployed ED app; not a generative chatbotDirect parenting evidence
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Vol. 2 · Issue 5 · Collaboration · Exploratory youth participatory/citizen-science field study

A New Model for Youth-Driven Community Change: Exploratory Testing of Artificial Intelligence–Supported Citizen Science

How could young people use AI to develop a shared community idea while keeping local knowledge and the final choice in human hands?

Adolescents; mean age 14 years (SD 1.41)CC BY 4.0Facilitator-mediated LLM critique and generative imaging in youth citizen scienceChild-facing evidence
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Vol. 2 · Issue 5 · Collaboration · Iterative clinical co-design, development, and formative usability study

Bringing a socially assistive robot to the paediatric emergency department: design, development, and usability testing

What should parents, children, and clinicians be able to change or stop when a robot is used during care?

Pediatric emergency-department patients; age range not clearly specified in this design reportCC BY 4.0Hybrid AI-planned socially assistive robot with substantial human operator control; not an LLMDirect parenting evidence
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Vol. 2 · Issue 5 · Collaboration · Qualitative participatory design/ethnographic study

Children’s Imaginaries of Human-Robot Interaction in Healthcare

What would my child want a robot to do to help people care for one another?

Six-year-old first-gradersCC BY 4.0Programmed educational robot prototypes and imagined social robotics; no deployed generative AIChild-facing evidence
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Vol. 2 · Issue 5 · Collaboration · Descriptive clinical-service implementation report

Experience developing a pediatric medical chatbot in Singapore: a digital innovation for improved emergency care

How would an automated pediatric advice service connect us to a clinician when a question exceeds the bot’s role?

Children served by a pediatric emergency department; chatbot users/caregivers not individually characterizedCC BY 4.0Earlier NLP plus rule-based clinical pathways and human escalation; generative AI was future workDirect parenting evidence
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Vol. 2 · Issue 5 · Collaboration · Longitudinal observational robot-assisted therapy study

A Long-Term Engagement with a Social Robot for Autism Therapy

How can our knowledge of a child’s interests help a therapist decide whether robot activities are welcome and useful?

Children 4–11 years; mean 6.1 yearsCC BY 4.0Human-operated, programmed social robot; not an autonomous or LLM therapistDirect parenting evidence
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Vol. 2 · Issue 5 · Collaboration · User-centered robot design case study

Design Path for a Social Robot for Emotional Communication for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

Which sensory and communication details would our family need to shape before trying an expressive robot?

Parents described autistic children mainly 3–15 years; no child effectiveness sampleCC BY 4.0Expressive social-robot prototype; programmed demonstration, with unvalidated aspirations for autonomous emotional interactionDirect parenting evidence
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Vol. 2 · Issue 5 · Collaboration · Socio-cognitive engineering/R&D synthesis with iterative field evaluations

Socio-Cognitive Engineering of a Robotic Partner for Child's Diabetes Self-Management

How could a child, parent, and care team agree on what an AI partner supports and what information they share?

Children mainly 7–14 years with type 1 diabetesCC BY (version not stated)Hybrid narrow AI/knowledge-based social robot and avatar; not a generative LLM or automated diabetes treatmentDirect parenting evidence
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Vol. 2 · Issue 5 · Collaboration · Scoping review

AI and Chatbot-Supported Interventions for Physical Activity and Obesity-Related Lifestyle Behaviors: Scoping Review With Attention to Family Involvement

What exactly would our family be asked to do in an AI-supported activity program, and which outcome has been tested?

Child/adolescent eligibility 0–18 years; included studies ranged from infancy to adolescenceCC BY 4.0Mixed rule-based/AI chatbots and narrow or generative AI interventions; system-specific differences matterFamily implications
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Vol. 2 · Issue 5 · Collaboration · Observational group-interaction pilot

The pilot study of group robot intervention on pediatric inpatients and their caregivers, using ‘new aibo’

How could we follow a child’s cues when exploring a robot together, including a wish to watch or stop?

Children 6 months–13 yearsCC BY 4.0Embodied narrow-AI robot pet; no LLM conversation or autonomous caregivingDirect parenting evidence
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Vol. 2 · Issue 5 · Collaboration · Participatory design methodology with preliminary qualitative findings

Exploring cultural imaginaries of robots with children with brittle bone disease: a participatory design study

If a robot entered our home, which relationships and routines should its design protect or support?

Children 11–15 years with osteogenesis imperfecta, with siblings and parentsCC BY 4.0Participatory exploration of social robotics with overt teleoperation; not an autonomous AI or LLM trialDirect parenting evidence
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