Petrelli, D., van den Hoven, E. and Whittaker, S. (2009) Making history: intentional capture of future memories. In: CHI 2009. CHI 2009, 04-09 Apr 2009, Boston, USA. ACM ISBN 978-1-60558-246-7
Abstract
‘Lifelogging’ technology makes it possible to amass digital data about every aspect of our everyday lives. Instead of focusing on such technical possibilities, here we investigate the way people compose long-term mnemonic representations of their lives. We asked 10 families to create a time capsule, a collection of objects used to trigger remembering in the distant future. Our results show that contrary to the lifelogging view, people are less interested in exhaustively digitally recording their past than in reconstructing it from carefully selected cues that are often physical objects. Time capsules were highly expressive and personal, many objects were made explicitly for inclusion, however with little object annotation. We use these findings to propose principles for designing technology that supports the active reconstruction of our future past.
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Item Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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Keywords: | Autobiographical memory, cultural probes, fieldwork, lifelogs. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Information School (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EU- Marie Curie Transfer of Knowledge program MTKD-CT-2005-030008 NWO-British Council Partnership Programme in Science PPS890 |
Depositing User: | dr. Daniela Petrelli |
Date Deposited: | 27 Jan 2009 14:41 |
Last Modified: | 19 Dec 2022 13:20 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1518701.1518966 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | ACM |
Refereed: | Yes |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:5402 |