research-article

Virtual possessions

Authors:

William Odom,

John Zimmerman,

Jodi ForlizziAuthors Info & Claims

DIS '10: Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

Pages 368 - 371

https://doi.org/10.1145/1858171.1858240

Published: 16 August 2010 Publication History

Get Access

Abstract

For more than forty years, researchers have detailed how people develop attachments to their material possessions as they create and evolve a sense of self. Over the past several years people have increasingly acquired virtual possessions. These include both possessions that are losing their material integrity (books, photos, music, movies) as well as things that have never had material form (e.g. email archives, social networking profiles, personal behavior logs). However, little is known about how people perceive, value, and form attachments to their virtual possessions. To investigate, we conducted a study with teens exploring their virtual possessions. Preliminary findings reveal three key themes and suggest emerging interaction design opportunities for new forms for people's virtual things.

References

[1]

Belk, R. W. 1988. Possessions and the Extended Self. Journal of Consumer Research, 15, 2, 139--168.

Crossref

Google Scholar

[2]

Chawla, L. 1992. Childhood Place Attachments. In Place Attachment. Altman, I. (ed.). Plenum Press, 63--86.

Google Scholar

[3]

Csikszenthmihalyi, M., Rochberg-Halton, E. 1981. The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Google Scholar

[4]

Kirk, D. et al. 2010. Opening Up the Family Archive. In Proc. of CSCW 2010, 261--270.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[5]

Ito, M. et al. 2010. Hanging Out, Messing Around, Geeking out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media. MIT Press.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[6]

Kleine, S., Baker, S. 2004. An Integrative Review of Material Possession Attachment. Academy of Marketing Science Review. 1--39.

Google Scholar

[7]

Livingstone, S. & Bovill, M. Young People, New Media. Summary Report of the Research Project: Children, Young People and the Changing Media Environment: http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/Media/people/slivingstone/young_people_report.pdf Media Culture Online, City, 1999: Accessed, February 7, 2010.

Google Scholar

[8]

Schau, H. J., & Gilly, M. C. 2003. We Are What We Post? Self-Presentation in Personal Web Space. Journal of Consumer Research, 30, 385--404.

Crossref

Google Scholar

[9]

Sellen, A. et al. 2007. Do life-logging technologies support memory for the past?: an experimental study using sensecam. In Proc. of CHI '07, 81--90.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[10]

Strauss, A. and Corbin, J. 1990. Basics of Qualitative Research: Grounded Theory Procedures and Techniques. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Google Scholar

[11]

Steele, J. R. & Brown, J. D. 1995. Adolescent room culture: Studying media in the context of everyday life. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 24, 5, 551--576.

Crossref

Google Scholar

Cited By

View all

Jones LGrip GKennedy ENabil S(2024)A Year of Interaction Around Town: Gathering Traces with an Interactive Knitting Machine and Community Stitch MarkersProceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference10.1145/3643834.3660736(1116-1133)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3643834.3660736
Martell ABenoit III E(2024)An opportunity to stay connected: documenting personal communication records of military personnelArchival Science10.1007/s10502-024-09445-x24:3(351-385)Online publication date: 5-Aug-2024
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-024-09445-x
杜雅(2022)A Review of the Research Status and Trends of Object AttachmentAdvances in Psychology10.12677/AP.2022.12307412:03(637-642)Online publication date: 2022
https://doi.org/10.12677/AP.2022.123074
Show More Cited By

Index Terms

Virtual possessions
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. Interface design prototyping

Recommendations

Teenagers and their virtual possessions: design opportunities and issues
CHI '11: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Over the past several years, people have increasingly acquired virtual possessions. We consider these things to include artifacts that are increasingly becoming immaterial (e.g. books, photos, music, movies) and things that have never traditionally had ...
Placelessness, spacelessness, and formlessness: experiential qualities of virtual possessions
DIS '14: Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Designing interactive systems

People worldwide are increasingly acquiring virtual possessions. While virtual possessions have become ubiquitous, little work exists on how people value them, and how their experiences of them differ from material possessions. In this paper, we reflect ...
Investigating the presence, form and behavior of virtual possessions in the context of a teen bedroom
CHI '12: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Over the past several years, people have acquired more and more virtual possessions. While virtual possessions have become ubiquitous, little work exists to inform designers on how these growing collections should be displayed and how they should ...

Comments

Please enable JavaScript to view thecomments powered by Disqus.

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

DIS '10: Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

August 2010

457 pages

ISBN:9781450301039

DOI:10.1145/1858171

Conference Chairs:
Olav W. Bertelsen
Aarhus University
,
Peter Krogh
Aarhus School of Architecture
,
Program Chairs:
Kim Halskov
Aarhus University
,
Marianne Graves Petersen
Aarhus University

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]

In-Cooperation

SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 16 August 2010

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Request Permissions

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Research-article

Conference

DIS '10

Sponsor:

IFIP

DIS '10: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2010

August 16 - 20, 2010

Aarhus, Denmark

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

15
Total Citations
View Citations
493
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)25
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)1

Reflects downloads up to 23 Feb 2025

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

View all

Jones LGrip GKennedy ENabil S(2024)A Year of Interaction Around Town: Gathering Traces with an Interactive Knitting Machine and Community Stitch MarkersProceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference10.1145/3643834.3660736(1116-1133)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3643834.3660736
Martell ABenoit III E(2024)An opportunity to stay connected: documenting personal communication records of military personnelArchival Science10.1007/s10502-024-09445-x24:3(351-385)Online publication date: 5-Aug-2024
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-024-09445-x
杜雅(2022)A Review of the Research Status and Trends of Object AttachmentAdvances in Psychology10.12677/AP.2022.12307412:03(637-642)Online publication date: 2022
https://doi.org/10.12677/AP.2022.123074
Cannelli BMusso M(2022)Social media as part of personal digital archives: exploring users’ practices and service providers’ policies regarding the preservation of digital memoriesArchival Science10.1007/s10502-021-09379-822:2(259-283)Online publication date: 24-Jan-2022
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-021-09379-8
Sestino AGuido GPeluso ASestino AGuido GPeluso A(2022)The Roles of Materialism and Status Consumption Orientation in the Purchase of NFT-Based Music CompilationsNon-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)10.1007/978-3-031-07203-1_5(53-62)Online publication date: 2-Jul-2022
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07203-1_5
Herron DMoncur WMarija Curic MGrubisic DVistica Ovan den Hoven EMandryk RHancock MPerry MCox A(2018)Digital Possessions in the Museum of Broken RelationshipsExtended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3170427.3186547(1-4)Online publication date: 20-Apr-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3170427.3186547
Ng JYew J(2017)Why Download When You Can Stream?Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction and User Experience in Indonesia10.1145/3077343.3077346(28-33)Online publication date: 18-Apr-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3077343.3077346
Herron DMoncur Wvan den Hoven EMival OSmyth MDalsgaard P(2017)Digital Decoupling and DisentanglingProceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems10.1145/3064663.3064765(1175-1185)Online publication date: 10-Jun-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3064663.3064765
Kwon HKoleva BSchnädelbach HBenford SLee CPoltrock SBarkhuus LBorges MKellogg W(2017)"It's Not Yet A Gift"Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing10.1145/2998181.2998225(2372-2384)Online publication date: 25-Feb-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2998181.2998225
Sinn DKim SSyn S(2017)Personal digital archiving: influencing factors and challenges to practicesLibrary Hi Tech10.1108/LHT-09-2016-010335:2(222-239)Online publication date: 19-Jun-2017
https://doi.org/10.1108/LHT-09-2016-0103
Show More Cited By

View Options

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Publication

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

PDF

eReader

View online with eReader.

eReader

Abstract

References

Cited By

Index Terms

Recommendations

Teenagers and their virtual possessions: design opportunities and issues

Placelessness, spacelessness, and formlessness: experiential qualities of virtual possessions

Investigating the presence, form and behavior of virtual possessions in the context of a teen bedroom

Comments

Information

Published In

Sponsors

In-Cooperation

Publisher

Publication History

Permissions

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Conference

Contributors

Other Metrics

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

Other Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Login options

Full Access

View options

PDF

eReader

Share

Share this Publication link

Share on social media

Affiliations