People in My Life: A Conceptual and Technological Exploration of Felt Closeness for Social Work Practice

The People in My Life project was an interdisciplinary innovation project inspired by the vision to unlock the potential of ‘felt closeness’ (i.e., sub­ jective perceptions of closeness to family and community members) for social work practice with children and young people. The central idea of the project was to develop a technology­based means (i.e. a tablet app) to assess and use this construct in social work practice. This is the report from the project.