Joji Joji Mori (PhD Candidate) Doctoral Consortium IDG Group 4 th May 2010

Background Bell, C. G., & Gemmell, J. (2009). Total recall : how the E-memory revolution will change everything. New York: Dutton. Lifeloggers typically wear computers in order to capture their entire lives, or large portions of their lives wikipedia

Phones – Lifelogging devices Smart Phones can be used/are being used as lifelogging devices Location aware (GPS, Compass) Call, SMS, , docs, photos, video, social network updates Hartnell-Young, E., & Vetere, F. (2005). Lifeblog: a new concept in mobile learning? Paper presented at the Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education. WMTE IEEE International Workshop on.

A critique of lifelogging Beyond Total Capture: A Constructive Critique of Lifelogging Sellen, A., & Whittaker, S. (2010). Beyond total capture: a constructive critique of lifelogging. Communications of the ACM, 53(5), Selectivity, not total capture 2. Cues not capture 3. Memory refers to a complex, multi- faceted set of concepts 4. Synergy not substitution Related reference. Mayer-Scho ̈ nberger, Viktor. (2009), Delete : the virtue of forgetting in the digital age / Viktor Mayer-Scho ̈ nberger Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock

Facebook in The Age Grieving issues - Gas leak tragedy: grandfather slams Facebook page 3 rd June Privacy fears - 30,000 quit Facebook in protest 2 nd June Data Mining - The terrors of Twittering: growing up in an unexploded data minefield 5 th May

Our digital past It seems inevitable more of our everyday lives will be captured digitally The end of the ephemeral Harper, R. Rodden, T., Rogers, Y., Sellen, A. (editors), Being human: Human– computer interaction in the year Cambridge: Microsoft Research

Designing for deletion How to better design for deletion in technology that stores personal digital content? Think – does anyone have a good storage/deletion system? Think Facebook – What should happen to mundane, day to day stuff well into future? Inappropriate or incorrect comments relating to you, regretful photos, how do you delete a friend?

Designing for deletion Limited storage Active storage/deletion Stored Deleted Stored Abundant storage Accumulate

Demotion GrayArea Bergman, O., Tucker, S., Beyth-Marom, R., Cutrell, E., & Whittaker, S. (2009). It's not that important: demoting personal information of low subjective importance using GrayArea. Paper presented at the Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Candidate audiences Everyday life The commuter (yesterdays observation) Reading MX Spacing out * 2 Music on phone * 2 News on phone * 2 (I was reading sport news) Billiards game on phone

Candidate audiences Youth into adulthood Formal processes for deletion Museums (unwanted artifacts) Photographer – what to delete / keep? Hard waste Juvenile Crime, Bankruptcy Law Allen, A. L. (2008). Dredging up the Past: Lifelogging, Memory, and Surveillance. University of Chicago Law Review, 75(1),

Consider death When you create a will, you decide the future of items of monetary, and emotional value What digital content should be kept and who should have access to it? What should be deleted?

Related Research Academics keep records for…. Finding it later Building a legacy Sharing resources Fears of loss Identity Construction: Impression Management in the Archive Kaye, J. J., Vertesi, J., Avery, S., Dafoe, A., David, S., Onaga, L., et al. (2006). To have and to hold: exploring the personal archive. Paper presented at the Proceedings of ACM CHI 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Related Research Technology Heirlooms Kirk, D. S. & Banks R. (2008). On the design of technology heirlooms. International Workshop on Social Interaction and Mundane Technologies (SIMTech 08).

Personal Experience

Question for you How should I best spend my time prior to collecting data, as the topic is still being formulated? Especially given we typically apply grounded theory Is meeting people and reading relevant literature enough?

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