Exploring the Reflective Potentialities of Personal Data with Different Temporal Modalities

Encountering Cover Versions of Songs Derived from Personal Music-Listening History Data: a Design and Field Trial of Musée in Homes

“…We found this lack of information helped users infer what elements provided unfamiliar feelings in the cover music. Odom et al (2020) referred to this approach as "richly minimal," and we identified a similar effect from using Musée. In line with Gaver et al's (2003) study, the restrictive characteristics of Musée stimulated curiosity about the data because participants were faced with only the sound of the music played back to them without other information.…”

“…Through this approach, we expected that these cover songs would provide unfamiliar feelings through the various artists' vocalizations of the users' most-played songs or different songs' melodies sung by the users' favorite artists. Additionally, previous studies (Odom et al, 2019;Odom et al, 2020) have shown that metadata (i.e. listening history) can be a resource for users to not only record their musical activity but also reflect on life experiences.…”

“…Moreover, recent HCI studies have revealed that musicstreaming history data can be used as design materials (Odom et al, 2020;Wirfs-Brock et al, 2020) and that users can tangibly explore music-listening history to support self-reflection and serendipitous experiences by triggering autobiographical memory in everyday life. Motivated in part by these works, we saw an opportunity to explore new design interventions to provide reflection-in-use with a new expression of personal data, specifically by applying a physical interaction that helps users explore their data archives and that provides a tangible feeling of control.…”

“It’s not just for the Past but it’s for the Here and Now”: Gift-Giver Perspectives on the Memory Machine to Gift Digital Memories

“…Both younger and older generations [77] now convert memories into digital possessions [46] and there has been growing interest and debate in human-computer interaction (HCI) communities, which deliberate what we do with accumulated data. Multiple studies [36,48,[50][51][52][53][54]69] in the field have focused on either creating physical artefacts and systems to present and store our personal media. Or, they discuss how technology can mediate reminiscence or nostalgic experiences.…”

Conceptualising sound-driven design: an exploratory discourse analysis

“…In the second, the perspective is flipped, the main motivation is not the production of knowledge, although it stays implied, rather the emphasis is on the artefact or the intervention, which show a higher degree of completeness and represent the main outcome and goal [4,29]. In this respect, Olo Radio, a music player that supports and sparks reflective and memory-oriented experiences, allows to explore one's own archive of personal listening history data [27]. Heart Waves is a heart rate monitoring device, composed of a pulse sensing wristband and a variable speed water system, to reduce anxiety by means of the sound masking effect of the increasing water stream [10].…”