A future-proof past: Designing for remembering experiences

Hoven, Elise van den

doi:10.1177/1750698014530625

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“…A c c e p t e d M a n u s c r i p t -46 -While this might seem a radical turn, we see it as a further articulation of lived informatics (Rooksby et al, 2014). It also resonates with a great deal of previous work on technologies of memory, which has consistently called for supporting story-telling and meaning making (e.g., Harper et al, 2008;Petrelli et al, 2009;van den Hoven, 2014;Zhao, Ng & Cosley, 2012) . Local Meetups of Quantified Self groups are arranged as 'Show and Tell' sessions, emphasizing each individual's story (Choe et al, 2014).…”

Section: Design Perspective: Making Accounts With Datasupporting

confidence: 70%

A Quantified Past: Toward Design for Remembering With Personal Informatics

Elsden

Kirk

Durrant

2015

Human–Computer Interaction

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Authors' Mini-bios:Chris Elsden (c.r.elsden@ncl.ac.uk, http://di.ncl.ac.uk) is an interaction design researcher with an interest in memory-related technologies and the experience-centred design of personal informatics; he is a Ph.D student at Open Lab in the School of Computer Science at Newcastle University. David S. Kirk (david.kirk@ncl.ac.uk) is a psychologist with an interest in the human-centred design of memory-related technologies; he is a Reader in Cultural Computing at Open Lab in the School of Computing Science at Newcastle University.Abigail C. Durrant (abigail.durrant@ncl.ac.uk, http://di.ncl.ac.uk) is an interaction design researcher with a longstanding interest in how digital technologies enable and constrain expressions of identity; she is a Leverhulme Fellow at Open Lab in the School of Computing Science at Newcastle University. AbstractThis paper questions how people will interact with a 'Quantified Past' -the growing historical record generated by the increasing use of sensor-based technologies and in particular, personal informatics tools. In a qualitative study, we interviewed 15 long-term users of different self-tracking tools about how they encountered, and made meaning from historical data they had collected. Our findings highlight that even if few people are self-tracking as a form of deliberate lifelogging, many of them generate data and records that become meaningful digital possessions. These records are revealing of many aspects of people's lives. Through considerable rhetorical data-work, people can appropriate such records to form highly personal accounts of their pasts. We use our findings to identify six characteristics of a quantified past and map an emerging design space for the longterm and retrospective use of personal informatics. Principally, we propose that design should seek to support people in making account of their data, and guard against the assumption that more, or 'better', data will be able to do this for them. To this end, we speculate on design opportunities and challenges for experiencing, curating and sharing historical personal data in new ways.

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Section: Design Perspective: Making Accounts With Datasupporting

confidence: 70%

A Quantified Past: Toward Design for Remembering With Personal Informatics

Elsden

Kirk

Durrant

2015

Human–Computer Interaction

114

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“…Responding to van den Hoven’s (2014) observation that “ Digital media, consisting of bits and bytes, are just not as visible and present as physical or tangible media are ” (p. 370), we have engaged with participants to create printed books from their social media profiles and assessed the reminiscence value of such books. Participant responses were measured against existing theoretical frameworks regarding the role and function of reminiscence.…”

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confidence: 99%

Reminiscence through the Lens of Social Media

Thomas

Briggs

2016

Front. Psychol.

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Reminiscence is used to support and create new social bonds and give meaning to life. Originally perceived as a preoccupation of the aged, we now recognize that reminiscence has value throughout the lifespan. Increasingly, social media can be used to both support and prompt reminiscence, with Facebook’s Lookback or Year in Review as recent examples. This work takes prompted reminiscence further, asking what forms and functions of reminiscence are supported by social media. Utilizing the online service MySocialBook, we invited participants to curate content from their personal Facebook account to then be transformed into a printed book. We used that book as a prompt for discussion of the reminiscence function of the curated material, using Westerhof and Bohlmeijer’s (2014) reminiscence framework as a starting point. We conclude that this framework is valuable in understanding the role of social media in reminiscence, but note that earlier models, such as Webster’s Reminiscence Functions Scale, are also relevant. We contribute to the reminiscence debate by adding a technological lens to the process of life review, whilst concurring with other researchers in this field that a robust conceptual framework is lacking, particularly when considering the forms of reminiscence that are most salient for younger people.

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“…The analysis could include the use of the system for spontaneous storytelling and search of particular media, and how objects serve as entry points into a new story. Mechanisms of media retrieval using objects and degree of randomness of retrieved media could be evaluated with regards to remembering experiences [12] of a person or group of people.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Within the context of supporting better remembering experiences through external remembering [12] we aim to inform the design of media retrieval systems at the level of individual interactions [15]. By making interactions for media retrieval a natural part of the user's storytelling and social conversations we try to reduce design interference into the remembering experience as much as possible.…”

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Storytelling with Objects to Explore Digital Archives

Blezinger

Hoven

2016

Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics

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Finding media in archives is difficult while storytelling with photos can be fun and supports memory retrieval. Could the search for media become a natural part of the storytelling experience? This study investigates spatial interactions with objects as a means to encode information for retrieval while being embedded in the story flow.An experiment is carried out in which participants watch a short video and re-tell the story using cards each of which shows a character or object occurring in the video. Participants arrange the cards when telling the story. It is analyzed what information interactions with cards carry and how this information relates to the language of storytelling.Most participants align interactions with objects with the sentences of the story while some arrange the cards corresponding to the video scene. Spatial interactions with objects can carry information on their own or complemented by language. CCS ConceptsHuman-centered computing → Interaction Design → Interaction design process and methods → User centered design

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A future-proof past: Designing for remembering experiences

Cited by 62 publications

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A Quantified Past: Toward Design for Remembering With Personal Informatics

A Quantified Past: Toward Design for Remembering With Personal Informatics

Reminiscence through the Lens of Social Media

Storytelling with Objects to Explore Digital Archives

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