Sharing Digital Photographs in the Home through Physical Mementos, Souvenirs, and Keepsakes
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2007-08-08
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People now easily share digital photos outside the home via web
publishing and gift-giving. Yet within the home, digital photos are hard to
access and lack the physical affordances that make sharing easy and
opportunistic. To promote in-home photo sharing, we designed Souvenirs, a
system that lets people link digital photo sets to physical memorabilia. These
mementos trigger memories and serve as social instruments; a person can
enrich their storytelling by moving the physical memento close to their
largeformat television screen, and the associated photos are immediately
displayed. We implemented Souvenirs, and then reexamined our design premises
through contextual interviews with 20 households. Families described their
current practices of photo sharing and memento use, and also reacted to the
Souvenirs design. Based on these interviews, we redesigned Souvenirs to
better fit the real practices of photo and memento use in the home
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Computer Science