Elsden, Chris, Durrant, Abigail and Kirk, David (2016) It's Just My History Isn't It? Understanding smart journaling practices. In: CHI 2016 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 7th - 12th May 2016, San Jose, CA.
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Abstract
Smart journals are both an emerging class of lifelogging applications and novel digital possessions, which are used to create and curate a personal record of one's life. Through an in-depth interview study of analogue and digital journaling practices, and by drawing on a wide range of research around 'technologies of memory', we address fundamental questions about how people manage and value digital records of the past. Appreciating journaling as deeply idiographic, we map a broad range of user practices and motivations and use this understanding to ground four design considerations: recognizing the motivation to account for one's life; supporting the authoring of a unique perspective and finding a place for passive tracking as a chronicle. Finally, we argue that smart journals signal a maturing orientation to issues of digital archiving.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Lifelogging; Memory; Smart Journals; Quantified Self |
| Subjects: | G400 Computer Science P300 Media studies |
| Department: | Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Computer and Information Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Paul Burns |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Aug 2018 09:22 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Aug 2021 12:01 |
| URI: | http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/35469 |
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