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Nunes, M., Greenberg, S. and Neustaedter, C. (2008)
Sharing Digital Photographs in the Home through Physical Mementos, Souvenirs, and Keepsakes. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems – ACM DIS’08. (Cape Town, South Africa), ACM Press, pages 250-260, February 25-27.
Type: Refereed conference (full paper).
Earlier version: Report 2007-875-27.
DOI: 10.1145/1394445.1394472
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Abstract.
People now easily share digital photos outside the home via web publishing and gift-giving. Yet within the home, digital photos are hard to access and lack the physical affordances that make sharing easy and opportunistic. To promote in-home photo sharing, we designed Souvenirs, a system that lets people link digital photo sets to physical memorabilia. These mementos trigger memories and serve as social instruments; a person can enrich their story-telling by moving the physical memento close to their large-format television screen, and the associated photos are immediately displayed. We implemented Souvenirs, and then re-examined our design premises through contextual interviews with 20 households. Families described their current practices of photo sharing and memento use, and also reacted to the Souvenirs design. Based on these interviews, we redesigned Souvenirs to better fit the real practices of photo and memento use in the home.
Keywords: Ubiquitous computing, digital photo management.