Inalienability

Spence, Jocelyn

doi:10.1145/3290605.3300887

Cited by 14 publications

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“…Inalienability describes how possessions become associated with those who gave us them [77] and may help to differentiate between gifting and sharing, with Spence [68] arguing that both physical and digital objects can inherit a sense of the person who gifted the object. This theory is demonstrated in Taylor et al's.…”

Section: Gifting and Digital Possessionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gifting the Past in the Present: An Exploration of Evoking Nostalgia through Hybrid Gifts

Gibson

Koleva

Flintham

et al. 2023

Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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This study focuses on the hybrid gifting model, where both physical and digital objects combine to create a single gift. For this in-theworld study, we turn to nostalgic emotions. We aimed to uncover if hybrid gifting can facilitate nostalgic experiences through repurposed digital media. In this case, we used a physical chocolate box and a QR code, that when scanned presented nostalgic images and text. Findings from gift exchanges and eighteen semi-structured interviews with givers and receivers are presented through thematic analysis. We reveal the impact on exchanges when nostalgia is evoked, and outline the roles of people, emotions, and objects. The contribution of this work is an understanding of repurposing our growing digital archives to frame nostalgic memories as gifts. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → HCI theory, concepts and models.

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Section: Gifting and Digital Possessionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gifting the Past in the Present: An Exploration of Evoking Nostalgia through Hybrid Gifts

Gibson

Koleva

Flintham

et al. 2023

Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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“…Despite being a convenient approach to sending and receiving a gift [37], there are arguments that digital content is only shared as opposed to gifted [10,24,25]. However, Spence proposes that both physical and digital objects can inherit a sense of the person who gave the object [67], therefore, increasing its value.…”

Section: Gifting and Possessionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…From a marketing perspective, digital goods can become more meaningful via deliberate acts of sharing and gifting [20,21], with it being possible for digital objects to promote inalienable feelings [67] (where objects inherit a sense of the person who gave it [78]). Yet, we rarely see examples of this within HCI works which tend to focus more on the framing of legacy or 'passing on', as opposed to gifting.…”

Section: Gifting and Possessionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“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

Gibson

Babbage

Wagner

et al. 2023

Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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We present the design of the Memory Machine (MeMa), a technology probe that can store, contextualise, and document media to represent memories. We accumulate vast physical and digital possessions throughout our lives, making it difficult to distinguish value in amassed images, albums, videos, mementos, and music. One option we wanted to explore via MeMa was to frame personal memories as a gift, in turn providing a way to revisit, share, and collate personal archives. We deployed MeMa into participants' homes and tasked them to create a digital gift involving an autobiographical memory. Through qualitative methods we uncovered the experience of twelve gift-givers. We found that the framing as a gift brought meaning to a collection of media, promoting reflection and emotional reminiscence in participants. Our contributions include design implications involving the relationship between emotions, technology, and gifting. CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → HCI theory, concepts and models.

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“…P10: but you could also do it to a company, so that that company could be, er Gmail for example, but it could already be that it's not a person but a company and they probably do have these P8: -or a solicitor, or something like that Here, the distinction highlighted by Spence between transactional and relational gifting becomes relevant [42]. For relational gifts -to which there is attached some form of meaning or sentimentality -the gift of a digital asset may be less burdensome.…”

Section: The Burden and Sustainability Of Stewardshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…When considering traditional components of the extended self, sentimental value can become attached to simple and common objects, which in turn presents an opportunity for some sense of self to be transmitted from one person to another through the gifting of meaningful objects. Spence [42] considers how this process of giving something with attached or embodied meaning -what she terms "inalienability" -might be found or replicated in the context of digital possessions. Digital items, unlike physical items, can often be duplicated and could be shared with any number of recipients.…”

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From Personal Data to Digital Legacy: Exploring Conflicts in the Sharing, Security and Privacy of Post-mortem Data

Holt

Nicholson

Smeddinck

2021

Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021

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As digital technologies become more prevalent there is a growing awareness of the importance of good security and privacy practices. The tools and techniques used to achieve this are typically designed with the living user in mind, with little consideration of how they should or will perform after the user has died. We report on two workshops carried out with users of password managers to explore their views on the post-mortem sharing, security and privacy of a range of common digital assets. We discuss a post-mortem privacy paradox where users recognise value in planning for their digital legacy, yet avoid actively doing so. Importantly, our findings highlight a tension between the use of recommended security tools during life and facilitating appropriate post-mortem access to chosen assets. We offer design recommendations to facilitate and encourage digital legacy planning while promoting good security habits during life. CCS CONCEPTS• Security and privacy → Social aspects of security and privacy; Privacy protections; Usability in security and privacy; • Human-centered computing → Human computer interaction (HCI); Social content sharing.

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Inalienability

Cited by 14 publications

References 45 publications

Gifting the Past in the Present: An Exploration of Evoking Nostalgia through Hybrid Gifts

Gifting the Past in the Present: An Exploration of Evoking Nostalgia through Hybrid Gifts

“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

From Personal Data to Digital Legacy: Exploring Conflicts in the Sharing, Security and Privacy of Post-mortem Data

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