Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Compiling research done so far: current research themes


(I) What makes retirement successful/happy?


(II) Designing for older people
  • Building existing habits and technologies that older people are already used to (cf. unimelb thing)

(III) Objects, things, digital possessions/mementos/legacies (materiality)


Lost in Translation: Understanding the Possession of Digital Things in the Cloud
(Features of digital things/artefacts that encourages people to transfer from physical to digital possessions)

AutoTopography What can physical mementos tell us about digital memories

Easy on the trigger dad: a study of long term family photo retrieval
  • Sharing/commenting on things:- makes digital artefacts seem more valuable
  • 24/7 accessibility
Cf. Mobile attachment

Invisible Connections: investigating Older People's Emotions and social relations around objects (Vaisutis)

Digital inheritance - Igor Nai Fovino (Global cyber security center)
"How much is your digital life worth? Should your inheritance include your digital posessions"


(IV) Cloud computing/collective memory/collaborative memory

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