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Enhancing Parenting Using AI: Exploratory Hackathon

Peter Woods; Stephanie Donohoe; Louise Turtle; Udit Agrawal; Joshua Humphriss; Niel Cordes; Nathan Hodson

Originally published 2025-12-17 · JMIR Formative Research
JMIR Publications Inc. · DOI 10.2196/68780 ↗

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AI / system type

AI/GenAI parenting feature prototypes; developer hackathon

Family implications

Design, ethics, stakeholder or technical evidence with child/family implications; household benefits are not assumed.

The AI connection

Develops AI-assisted distraction ideas, interaction summaries and weekly journal roundups for Pause.

Why this reading matters

Concrete methods account of building parenting-specific AI features with explicit unfinished evaluation needs.

Editorial reading guide · Collaboration

What should clinicians, parents and developers test before an AI parenting feature is offered to families?

Maps to Collaboration through joint clinical-technical development of support between parenting sessions.

Study context

Medical, product and software contributors; four feedback respondents

Age / stage: Targets parents of children with conduct difficulties; no child-user trial

Read with three questions

  1. Which parenting problems motivated the three workstreams?
  2. What was technically functioning by the end of the event?
  3. Which user, safety and effectiveness questions remained untested?

Keep the limits in view

Developer event rather than parent/child effectiveness study; one day and four feedback respondents. Functional prototypes do not establish usability, safety or clinical benefit.

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Peter Woods; Stephanie Donohoe; Louise Turtle; Udit Agrawal; Joshua Humphriss; Niel Cordes; Nathan Hodson (2025). Enhancing Parenting Using AI: Exploratory Hackathon JMIR Formative Research. https://doi.org/10.2196/68780

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