Easy on that trigger dad: a study of long term family photo retrieval

Whittaker, Steve; Bergman, Ofer; Clough, Paul

doi:10.1007/s00779-009-0218-7

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“…These lightweight organisational strategies may not be effective in supporting long term retrieval however. Whittaker et al (2009) found that people were unable to retrieve around 40% of personal photos that were more than a year old.…”

Section: Personal Collectionsmentioning

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Family memories in the home: contrasting physical and digital mementos

Petrelli

Whittaker

2010

Pers Ubiquit Comput

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We carried out fieldwork to characterise and compare physical and digital mementos in the home. Physical mementos are highly valued, heterogeneous and support different types of recollection. Contrary to expectations, we found physical mementos are not purely representational, and can involve appropriating common objects and more idiosyncratic forms. In contrast, digital mementos were initially perceived as less valuable, although participants later reconsidered this. Digital mementos were somewhat limited in function and expression -largely involving representational photos and videos, and infrequently accessed. We explain these digital limitations and conclude with design guidelines for digital mementos, including better techniques for accessing and integrating these into everyday life -allowing them to acquire the symbolic associations and lasting value that characterise their physical counterparts.

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Section: Personal Collectionsmentioning

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Family memories in the home: contrasting physical and digital mementos

Petrelli

Whittaker

2010

Pers Ubiquit Comput

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“…But it can also be intriguing, mysterious, and delightful. By pushing people to interpret situations for themselves, it encourages them to start grappling conceptually with systems and their contexts, and thus to establish deeper and more personal relations with the meanings offered by those systems" [24]. We intend to underline that introducing some components of variation in the content of users' memories, we encourage users to reinforce their relation between space and personal identity.…”

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Using the critical design approach for rethinking citizens’ emotional bond with urban spaces

Matassa¹,

Vernero²

2015

ICST Transactions on Ambient Systems

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This paper focuses on the use of the critical design approach to analyze and understand the connection between human beings and urban spaces. Taking inspiration from the value that place and space have for people (e.g. for the construction of their individual identities) and from previous works concerning memories in the urban space experienced while cycling, we propose to undertake a design research where ambiguous and cognitively dissonant messages are delivered through a wearable device to encourage individuals to rethink and revalue their relations with space, consequently reshaping their personal identity.

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“…In contrast to these findings, Whittaker et al [23] found that family members often struggled to locate digital photographs from family events which took place more than a year ago. Eighteen UK participants could only find 61% of such photographs which were an average of 3.1 years old.…”

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“…To answer these questions we used a combination of interview, diary and task-based methods adapted from Frohlich et al [13] and Whittaker et al [23]. Ten families participated in field work for the study between May and September 2007.…”

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“…For example, a recent study by Whittaker, Berman & Clough [23] showed that nearly 40% of digital photographs in a family collection could not be found in the collection when cued by the naming of a memorable event mentioned by family members. Viewed from another perspective, the re-discovery of forgotten media can be a very powerful and pleasurable event in its own right, as shown in studies of music and physical memorabilia including photograph albums and prints [e.g.…”

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Rediscovery of forgotten images in domestic photo collections

Frohlich

Wall²,

Kiddle

2012

Pers Ubiquit Comput

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The exponential growth of digital photo collections, combined with the legacy of printed photographs, is leading families to experience difficulties in remembering and finding photographs. Paradoxically this creates new opportunities for the re-discovery of forgotten images. This paper reports a new study in this area, based on interviews and creative activities with ten families in the south east of England. The study found that many triggers for photo re-use were either speculative or accidental, and led people to reinterpret the meaning of photographs in the light of subsequent experience and social discussion. This suggests a need to support serendipitous browsing of photographs and a more fluid and provisional approach to the semantic tagging of personal media. KeywordsDigital photography, photo collection, memory, remembering, retrieval, browsing could not be found in the collection when cued by the naming of a memorable event mentioned by family members. Viewed from another perspective, the re-discovery of forgotten media can be a very powerful and pleasurable event in its own right, as shown in studies of music and physical memorabilia including photograph albums and prints [e.g. 12, 16, 18]. Building on these latter studies as a complement to the Whittaker et al work on forgetting, we report a new study on the social and material triggers for returning to old photographs in the family collection, and the kinds of associated memories and interpretations given to forgotten images re-discovered. Author detailsOur methods were similar to those used by Whittaker et al, and also by Frohlich, Kuchinsky, Perring, Don & Arris [13] in their early study of photo organisation and sharing. Ten families with teenage children were interviewed at home about photo archiving and re-use before being asked to carry out a creative photo retrieval task. At the end of the first interview, families were asked to fill in diaries of photo use over a subsequent four week period. Follow-up interviews were then conducted to discuss diary entries and some of their associated photographs. In the rest of the paper we introduce the Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, in press @ October 2012 -3 -motivation for the study with respect to existing literature, outline our methods in greater

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Easy on that trigger dad: a study of long term family photo retrieval

Cited by 157 publications

References 41 publications

Family memories in the home: contrasting physical and digital mementos

Family memories in the home: contrasting physical and digital mementos

Using the critical design approach for rethinking citizens’ emotional bond with urban spaces

Rediscovery of forgotten images in domestic photo collections

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