“It’s not just for the Past but it’s for the Here and Now”: Gift-giver perspectives on the memory machine to gift digital memories

Rebecca Gibson; Camila Babbage; Hanne Wagner; Dominic Price; Neil Chadborn; Sachiyo Ito-Jaeger; Rachel Jacobs; Helena Webb; Ayça Atabey; Boriana Koleva; Martin Flintham; Heidi Winklhofer; Lachlan Urquhart; Elvira Perez Vallejos

doi:10.1145/3563657.3595962

“It’s not just for the Past but it’s for the Here and Now”: Gift-giver perspectives on the memory machine to gift digital memories

Rebecca Gibson^*, Camila Babbage, Hanne Wagner, Dominic Price, Neil Chadborn, Sachiyo Ito-Jaeger, Rachel Jacobs, Helena Webb, Ayça Atabey, Boriana Koleva, Martin Flintham, Heidi Winklhofer, Lachlan Urquhart, Elvira Perez Vallejos

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We present the design of the Memory Machine (MeMa), a technology probe that can store, contextualise, and document media to represent memories. We accumulate vast physical and digital possessions throughout our lives, making it difficult to distinguish value in amassed images, albums, videos, mementos, and music. One option we wanted to explore via MeMa was to frame personal memories as a gift, in turn providing a way to revisit, share, and collate personal archives. We deployed MeMa into participants’ homes and tasked them to create a digital gift involving an autobiographical memory. Through qualitative methods we uncovered the experience of twelve gift-givers. We found that the framing as a gift brought meaning to a collection of media, promoting reflection and emotional reminiscence in participants. Our contributions include design implications involving the relationship between emotions, technology, and gifting.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	DIS '23
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Publisher	ACM
Pages	987-1001
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450398930
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3595962
Publication status	Published - 10 Jul 2023

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Gibson, R., Babbage, C., Wagner, H., Price, D., Chadborn, N., Ito-Jaeger, S., Jacobs, R., Webb, H., Atabey, A., Koleva, B., Flintham, M., Winklhofer, H., Urquhart, L., & Perez Vallejos, E. (2023). “It’s not just for the Past but it’s for the Here and Now”: Gift-giver perspectives on the memory machine to gift digital memories. In DIS '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 987-1001). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3595962

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DIS '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. ACM, 2023. p. 987-1001.

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