EAGER HCC: The Persistence of Digital Identity

这是一项关于Facebook和MySpace等社交网站(SNS)用户死亡的多方法实证研究。社交网络的大规模采用包括越来越多不再活着的人的存在。然而，用户的身体死亡并不会导致他或她的帐户或配置文件在数字对等网络中的位置被消除。事实上，朋友们在死后使用用户的个人资料来告别、分享记忆和协调葬礼安排是众所周知的，尽管不是经常被讨论。通过关注通过时间推移的数据体现的协作表示，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，并为以人为中心的计算社区生成以经验为基础的设计原则。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，未来可能会发展成为一个更发达的研究领域。对死亡的关注突出了社交网络和表现的三个重要主题：体现、表现和时间性。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。表征引发了对在线身份的传统考虑，自我的呈现，可接受的人物角色的制作，以及在考虑到特定目的和表征的情况下创建记录的方式。表示与实施有关，因为它讲的是数据对象和人体之间的关系，但它也结合了主动的、有目的的、具有战略意义的表示实践，考虑到特定的目的。时间性涉及“生命周期”的概念，因为它已被应用于系统开发--即数字系统产生、投入使用和停止使用的情况。一个用户的寿命和那个用户的寿命？S的数据经常是不同的，当考虑到社交网络中持续存在死用户配置文件时，这个问题尤其严重。这项工作将在新的技术范式下推进对死亡的理论理解。这个项目是第一个专注于社交网络技术基础设施的研究项目，以及它如何塑造、启用、有时干扰死后身份的持久性。准备、体验和哀悼死亡的问题是人类体验的基础。这项工作的结果可能会影响SNS等服务的政策决策，如果死亡等敏感问题受到不当对待，这些服务可能会给用户带来巨大的情感创伤，以及许多系统的身份管理基础技术架构。

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.