“…Jocelyn Spence, Dimitrios Darzentas, Harriet Cameron, Yitong Huang, Matt Adams, Ju Farr, Nick Tandavanitj, and Steve Benford's article (Spence et al, this issue) relates to HCI work that attempts to tie together personal and collective pasts, extended forms of present, and imaginations and concerns about the future, like research on digital legacy (Gulotta et al, 2017), digital mementos (Bowen & Petrelli, 2011), museums (Claisse et al, 2020), and time capsules (Petrelli et al, 2009). The authors look at the effect of past and future engagement in the present through two case studies of virtual gifting in museums.…”