Kiki: An app to reduce parental stress by helping them manage their kids school and social life in a single place for all the family

Kiki：这款应用程序可以帮助全家人在一个地方管理孩子的学校和社交生活，从而减轻父母的压力

• 批准号: 10083976
• 金额: $ 9.01万
• 依托单位: WREN GAMES LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10083976
• 关键词: Kiki; app; reduce; parental; stress

There is a significant administrative burden of dealing with school/nursery communications which are frequent and often short notice requiring daily check-ins. Our user research indicates this is a widespread problem; parents find it both time consuming and stressful as they don't want their child(ren) to miss out. Examples that have been given by parents are turning up in uniform on a non-uniform day creating great embarrassment for the child, missing a trip form so their child is unable to go, forgetting their swim kit so the child can't participate in swimming lessons, and more. Schools/nurseries use multiple forms of communication such as emails, PDF newsletters, texts, websites and apps. This requires (mostly) mums to have additional mental load and act as an unpaid administrator to combine and share these events with other family members, resolving conflicts as they occur. This workload then multiplies if they have kids at multiple schools creating significant administrative and mental burdens. Then if you also consider neurodivergent parents, managing this administrative burden becomes even more difficult and stressful. We undertook a survey of c.65 mums who are actively trying to "bridge the gap" with their partner, yet only 7% reported that their partner helped with managing school communications compared to 30% doing cooking and/or housework daily \[[EIGE's Gender Equality Index][0]\]. Over 25% of these mums reported that they found it overwhelming with just 15% reporting they found school communications a breeze to deal with. Additionally \>90% of parents admitted they have forgotten a school event, leading to a child missing out alongside parental stress and guilt. It can therefore be inferred that these school communications are having a direct negative impact on parental wellbeing. We aim to reduce this. Our proposed app, _Kiki_, will use AI to alleviate this administrative burden giving parents a way to automatically collate all school/nursery communications into a single shared space with the things most relevant to them highlighted and added to a family calendar.[0]: https://eige.europa.eu/publications-resources/toolkits-guides/gender-equality-index-2021-report/gender-differences-household-chores

处理学校/托儿所的通信是一个巨大的行政负担，这些通信频繁且通常需要每天签到。我们的用户研究表明，这是一个普遍存在的问题;父母发现这既耗时又有压力，因为他们不希望他们的孩子错过。父母给出的例子是，在一个不穿制服的日子里穿着制服出现，给孩子造成了极大的尴尬，错过了一个旅行表格，所以他们的孩子无法去，忘记了他们的游泳包，所以孩子不能参加游泳课，等等。学校/托儿所使用多种形式的通信，如电子邮件，PDF通讯，文本，网站和应用程序。这就要求（大多数情况下）妈妈们承担额外的精神负担，并作为一个无偿的管理者，将这些事件联合收割机与其他家庭成员分享，在发生冲突时解决冲突。如果他们的孩子在多所学校上学，这种工作量就会成倍增加，从而造成巨大的行政和精神负担。然后，如果你也考虑神经分歧的父母，管理这种管理负担变得更加困难和压力。我们对65名积极尝试与伴侣“弥合差距”的母亲进行了一项调查，但只有7%的人报告说，他们的伴侣帮助管理学校沟通，而30%的人每天做饭和/或做家务。超过25%的妈妈表示，她们觉得学校沟通太难了，只有15%的妈妈表示，她们觉得学校沟通很容易处理。此外，超过90%的家长承认他们忘记了学校的活动，导致孩子错过了父母的压力和内疚。因此，可以推断，这些学校通信对父母的福祉产生了直接的负面影响。我们的目标是减少这一点。我们提出的应用程序_Kiki_将使用人工智能来减轻这种管理负担，让父母能够自动将所有学校/托儿所的通信整理到一个共享空间中，突出显示与他们最相关的事情并添加到家庭日历中。[0]：https://eige.europa.eu/publications-resources/toolkits-guides/gender-equality-index-2021-report/gender-differences-household-chores网站