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Reciprocity, deep storage, and letting go: opportunities for designing interactions with inherited digital materials

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William Odom,

Richard Banks,

Dave KirkAuthors Info & Claims

Interactions, Volume 17, Issue 5

Pages 31 - 34

https://doi.org/10.1145/1836216.1836224

Published: 01 September 2010 Publication History

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Recently, Facebook has included a "memorial" feature for users' homepages. Nonetheless, many problems remain, such as users being reminded to "reconnect" with deceased friends. See Ortutay. B. "Facebook to Memorialize Deceased User Profiles." The Globe and Mail, 27 October 2009; http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/facebook-to-memorialize-deceased-user-profiles/article1339899/

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For a more in-depth description of findings from our field research, see: Odom, W. Harper, R., Sellen, A., Kirk, D., and Banks, R. "Passing On and Putting to Rest: Understanding Bereavement in the Context of Interactive Technologies," 1831--1840. In Proc. of CHI '10. New York: ACM Press, 2010.

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This design direction is suggested by recent work critiquing the dominant view of life logging. See Sellen, A. and Whittaker, S. "Beyond Total Capture: A Constructive Critique of Lifelogging." Communications of the ACM 53, 5 (2010).

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These directions collectively suggest clear concerns over the ethical treatment of content over time and across owners; very recently, HCI researchers have begun to articulate the imperative to approach the design of information systems with multiple life spans in mind. For example see Friedman, B. and Nathan, L. "Multi-Lifespan Information System Design: A Research Initiative for the HCI Community," 2243--2246 In Proc. of CHI '10. New York: ACM Press, 2010.

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Reciprocity, deep storage, and letting go: opportunities for designing interactions with inherited digital materials
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing systems and tools
  2. Human computer interaction (HCI)
2. Information systems
  1. World Wide Web

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