Penseive box: designing tangible platforms for digital memorialization practices
Author(s)
Chaudhari, Charu
Prakash, Anjanakshi
Tsaasan, A.M.
Brubaker, Jed R.
Tanenbaum, Theresa Jean
Issue Date
2016-03-15
Keyword(s)
Tangible Technology
Memorialization Practices
Abstract
When someone close to us passes away, many of us seek to hold on to the memories, stories and objects that remind us of the departed. With a few notable exceptions, little research has been done into the role of material and tangible reminders in technologically mediated memorialization practices. In this work, we describe a speculative prototype design called Pensieve Box, which we employ as part of a cultural probe to explore how individuals might incorporate technology into their memorialization practices. We conducted an interview study with individuals who recently lost a loved one to investigate how a tangible interactive technology might be used within the context of personal memorialization and identified several themes around these practices that can inform future designs.
Publisher
iSchools
Series/Report Name or Number
IConference 2016 Proceedings
Type of Resource
text
Language
eng
Permalink
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/89340
DOI
https://doi.org/10.9776/16524
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