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FM radio: family interplay with sonic mementos

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Daniela Petrelli,

Nicolas Villar,

Vaiva Kalnikaite,

Steve WhittakerAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '10: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 2371 - 2380

https://doi.org/10.1145/1753326.1753683

Published: 10 April 2010 Publication History

Abstract

Digital mementos are increasingly problematic, as people acquire large amounts of digital belongings that are hard to access and often forgotten. Based on fieldwork with 10 families, we designed a new type of embodied digital memento, the FM Radio. It allows families to access and play sonic mementos of their previous holidays. We describe our underlying design motivation where recordings are presented as a series of channels on an old fashioned radio. User feedback suggests that the device met our design goals: being playful and intriguing, easy to use and social. It facilitated family interaction, and allowed ready access to mementos, thus sharing many of the properties of physical mementos that we intended to trigger.

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FM radio: family interplay with sonic mementos
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. User centered design
2. Information systems

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DOI:10.1145/1753326

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