EAGER HCC: The Persistence of Digital Identity

这是一个多方法的实证研究，用户死亡的社交网站（SNS），如Facebook和MySpace。 SNS的大规模采用包括越来越多的人不再活着。然而，用户的身体死亡不会导致他或她的帐户或个人资料在数字对等网络中的位置的消除。事实上，朋友们在用户死后使用用户的个人资料来说最后的告别，分享记忆，协调葬礼安排是众所周知的，如果不是经常讨论的话。通过专注于跨时间的数据所体现的协作表示，这项探索性研究将揭示如何拓宽我们当前的访问、授权和隐私技术架构，并为以人为本的计算社区生成基于经验的设计原则。这项研究工作有可能开辟新的探索领域，并改变我们对SNS和其他在线服务的看法。这项工作还处于非常早期的阶段，将来可能会发展成为一个更成熟的研究领域。对死亡的关注突出了社交网络和表征的三个重要主题：体现、表征和时间性。实施例涉及数据对象和数字表示如何“代表”人体。它概括了技术层面和社会层面的准入问题、所有权问题、管理问题、存在问题、人格问题和参与地位问题。表征唤起了对在线身份的传统考虑，自我的呈现，以及可接受的人物角色的制作，以及考虑在特定目的和表征下创建记录的方式。表征与具体化有关，因为它涉及数据对象与人体之间的关系，但它也包含了主动的、有目的的、战略性的实践，即在头脑中实现特定目的的表征。时间性涉及“生命周期”的概念，因为它已被应用于系统开发-在这种情况下，数字系统的形成，投入使用，并停止服务。一个用户的生活和这个用户的生活？的数据经常是不一样的，当考虑到SNS中死亡用户配置文件的延续时，这个问题特别严重。这项工作将推进死亡的新技术范式的理论理解。该项目是第一个专注于SNS技术基础设施的研究工作-以及它如何塑造，启用，有时干扰-死后身份的持久性。 准备、体验和哀悼死亡是人类经历的基本问题。这项工作的结果有可能影响SNS等服务的政策决定，有可能对用户造成实质性的情感创伤，如果这些敏感问题，如死亡被虐待，以及底层的身份管理的技术架构的主机系统。

This is a multi-method empirical study of user death in Social Networking Sites (SNS), such as Facebook and MySpace. The mass adoption of SNS includes the growing presence of individuals who are no longer alive. However, the physical death of a user does not result in the elimination of his or her account nor the profile's place inside a network of digital peers. Indeed, friends' use of a user's profile postmortem to say last goodbyes, share memories, and coordinate funereal arrangements is well known, if not frequently discussed. Through a focus on collaborative representations embodied through data across time, this exploratory research will reveal ways to broaden our current technical architectures for access, authorization, and privacy, and generate empirically grounded design principles for the Human-Centered Computing community. This research effort has the potential to open new areas of exploration and transform our thinking about SNS and other online services. This work is in its very early stages, and likely to develop into a more developed research area in the future. Focusing on death highlights three important themes for social networks and representation: embodiment, representation, and temporality. Embodiment concerns how data objects and digital representations "stand for" human bodies. It encapsulates issues of access, issues of ownership, issues of management, issues of presence, issues of personhood, and issues of participatory status, both at the technical level and at the social. Representation invokes the traditional considerations of online identity, the presentation of self, and the crafting of acceptable personas as well as consideration of the ways in which records are created with specific purposes and representations in mind. Representation relates to embodiment in that it speaks to the relationship that holds between the data object and the human body, but it incorporates too the active, purposive, strategic practices of representing with particular ends in mind. Temporality concerns the notion of "lifecycles" as it has been applied in system development - the circumstances under which digital systems come into being, are put to use, and are taken out of service. The life of a user and the life of that user?s data are frequently not the same, an issue particularly acute when considering the continuation of dead user profiles in SNS. This work will advance theoretical understandings of death in light of new technological paradigms. This project is the first research effort to focus on the technological infrastructure of SNS - and how it shapes, enables, and at times interferes with - persistence of identities after death. Issues of preparing for, experiencing, and mourning death are fundamental to the human experience. The results of this work have the potential to influence the policy decisions of services like SNS that have the potential to inflict substantial emotional trauma on users if such sensitive issues as death are mistreated as well as the technical architectures underlying identity management for a host of systems.