An internet of old things as an augmented memory system

Barthel, Ralph; Mackley, Kerstin Leder; Hudson-Smith, A; Karpovich, Angelina; Jode, Martin de; Speed, Chris

doi:10.1007/s00779-011-0496-8

Cited by 57 publications

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“…However, recent work has started integrating stories with everyday things. For example, de Jode et al [11] reported a particularly interesting case, in which celebrities donated clothing to a charity shop and attached stories about where they had worn that item using a system called Tales of Things [1]. This case study demonstrates how mundane items can be instilled with meaning given the right memory narratives.…”

Section: Using "Memories" To Augment Objects and Placesmentioning

confidence: 87%

"If these walls could talk"

Dong

Ackerman

Newman

2014

Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

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This work explores the potential value of using the enormous amount of activity traces latest ubicomp environments have started to capture. We sought to understand potential practices of using these traces in the long term through a field-based study in the United States that examines how today's people use traces left by their predecessors in the houses where they live.We found that our participants received, discovered, and made use of many small traces held by artifacts, people, and building materials. Those traces were used to provide practical assistance to participants' appropriation of their houses as well as to connect participants with the past in an evocative manner. Our analysis highlights the roles played by the social context and the mutability of the house in the experience of remembering the house as well as in shaping participants' attitudes of passing on traces of prior appropriation of the place. To illustrate the design implications of those findings, we offer three design concepts to characterize potential ways of using traces captured by ubicomp environments in the long term.

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Section: Using "Memories" To Augment Objects and Placesmentioning

confidence: 87%

"If these walls could talk"

Dong

Ackerman

Newman

2014

Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

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“…The customer is able to suggest higher or lower prices in response to the 'haggle'. The snippets of information imparted in the haggle constructed value chains from the past in to the future, such as past: stories of provenance similar to those found in the Shelflife / Tales of Things project [3], where the item was made or found; present: current prices on eBay, current Oxfam campaigns; and future: how many goats the product will allow Oxfam to give, or forthcoming events? This receipt also displayed the agreed price of the object and acted as a memory of the transaction.…”

Section: Designing the Haggle-o-tronmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Haggle-O-Tron

Speed

Hartswood²,

Laurier

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 2014 Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems

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Secondhand retail in the UK charity sector plays a number of important social and economic roles: charity shops are community focal points; money is generated for good causes; and goods are re-circulated that might otherwise be discarded as abject and unwanted. However, like much of the UK high street, the prosperity of charity shops is under significant threat from the rise of internet shopping. Access to online markets via smart phones equips customers to check prices for secondhand items, some customers then deploy information, usually from eBay, to haggle with shop staff. This demo presents the Haggle-o-Tron as a design intervention into an Oxfam secondhand shop that playfully subverts both normative and emerging secondhand retail valuation practices by revealing secondhand goods' financial, moral, social and aesthetic properties. This demonstration proposal is for a demonstration that will present both the design solution and documentation of its role within the ethnographic study.

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“…Yet, from a design perspective, IoT technologies such as RFID are being explored not just for tracking products through their life cycle or connecting devices to optimize systems but also for annotating objects with sensors to create new forms of tangible and social interaction (Barthel et al, 2013;Martinussen and Arnall, 2009). Annotating physical objects to reflect their history and relationships ownership, use, meaning making, and so on can be exploited to reflect the importance of physical objects to human social relations.…”

Section: The Things Of the Internet Of Thingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

An internet of social things

Nansen

Ryn

Vetere

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 26th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference on Designing Futures: The Future of Design

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The Internet of Things is a vision for a world of interconnected smart devices. We present an alternative vision based on a review of literature that emphasizes the importance and role of objects in social relations. We situate this work in relation to a conceptual understanding of objects and sociality, and note some methodological implications of a more object-centred sociality that may suggest design opportunities alongside the emerging Internet of Things.

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An internet of old things as an augmented memory system

Cited by 57 publications

References 29 publications

"If these walls could talk"

"If these walls could talk"

The Haggle-O-Tron

An internet of social things

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