Technology Mediated Reminiscence: Designing Interactions with Digital Mementos
Date Issued
2014
Date
2014
Author(s)
Tsai, Wenn-Chieh
Abstract
Reminiscence has been viewed as a phenomenon across our whole life, a life where technologies live with us. Most work on digital memory aids focuses on “adding” information to the venue to help users remember or recollect things that might have been forgotten. However, little of that research has reflected on this mainstream approach and focused on the relationship between reminiscence and the qualities of interactive artifacts that leads to a better reminiscence experience. In this dissertation, we present a design research process to gain knowledge of designing reminiscence aids, and show how it reflexively helps us understand a better state of technology-mediated reminiscence. We see reminiscence as an experience-centered rather than a utility-oriented interaction where people are engaged in a meaning-making process situated in their daily lives. From a constructive perspective, we define and explore a new design space for reminiscence aids based on three interaction attributes, namely, evocative, dialogical, and reconstructive. With an epistemological stance of research through design, three framing artifacts and the Reflexive Printer, our design example, illustrate our propositions toward what might be a preferred and “right” interaction design for technology-mediated reminiscence. With the insights from the field studies, we reframe technology-mediated reminiscence as an intersubjective interaction between human and artifact. In this mutually informed relationship, we propose perceived drawbacks as an experiential quality for provoking the critical sensibilities of users and engaging them in transgressing the norm of digital photo consumption. This dissertation is a documentation of the critical making and the design thinking behind our practices. We also highlight several implications for designing technologies for reminiscence that HCI communities can leverage in the future.
Subjects
科技輔助懷舊
回憶輔具
數位回憶物
自傳式記憶
透過設計的研究
經驗為中心的設計
批判設計
SDGs
Type
thesis
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