CAREER: Towards Keepsake Technologies to Support Intergenerational Family Memory Practices

职业生涯：采用纪念品技术来支持代际家庭记忆实践

• 批准号: 2239695
• 负责人: Jasmine Jones
• 金额: $ 57.94万
• 依托单位: Berea College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2028-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2239695&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Towards; Keepsake; Technologies; Support

This project will contribute conceptual, technical, and empirical insights to the social study of ubiquitous computing technology related to family memory. A popular application of digital media technologies is for reminiscing and sharing memories with others, especially in families trying to pass memories down across generations. An emerging class of systems, "keepsake technologies," integrate interactivity with digital mementos into physical objects to blend seamlessly into family life. Devices range from interactive souvenir boxes to augmented memorial photo altars for deceased family members. Such technologies can provide accessible and engaging ways for generations in a family to tell stories about the family, preserving important history and heritage even across distance and time. Understanding how technologies shape memory practices is especially critical to supporting families that could use these systems to preserve important cultural heritage, such as the cultural minorities in the Appalachian region, where this research takes place. Teams of undergraduate researchers from Appalachia will be deeply involved in this research, learning and practicing culturally situated design methods.The research starts with a literature review of the field, identifying keepsake technologies and characterizing their design. Next, it will develop keepsake technology exemplars inspired by speculative design concepts in the human-centered computing, design, and ubiquitous computing literatures. These exemplars will be used in field studies to explore how keepsake technologies mediate family social interactions around stories about the past, as well as the content of the story itself. To address gaps in the literature, participatory speculative design workshops with community members will generate ideas for technologies for currently unsupported family storytelling practices. The outcomes of this work will be (1) a theoretical framework characterizing design approaches of keepsake technologies, (2) design exemplars of keepsake technologies that support family storytelling with digital mementos, and (3) design implications for culturally sensitive design of ubiquitous computing technologies for family social interactions.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目将为与家庭记忆相关的普适计算技术的社会研究贡献概念、技术和实证见解。数字媒体技术的一个流行应用是与他人回忆和分享记忆，特别是在试图将记忆代代相传的家庭中。一类新兴的系统“纪念品技术”将互动性与数字纪念品集成到物理对象中，从而无缝地融入家庭生活。设备范围从互动纪念品盒到已故家庭成员的增强纪念照片祭坛。此类技术可以为家庭中的几代人提供方便且引人入胜的方式来讲述家庭故事，即使跨越距离和时间也能保存重要的历史和遗产。了解技术如何塑造记忆实践对于支持可以使用这些系统来保护重要文化遗产的家庭尤其重要，例如本研究进行的阿巴拉契亚地区的文化少数群体。来自阿巴拉契亚的本科研究人员团队将深入参与这项研究，学习和实践文化背景下的设计方法。该研究从对该领域的文献综述开始，确定纪念品技术并描述其设计特征。接下来，它将开发纪念品技术范例，其灵感来自于以人为本的计算、设计和普适计算文献中的推测设计概念。这些范例将用于实地研究，探索纪念品技术如何围绕过去的故事以及故事本身的内容来调节家庭社交互动。为了解决文献中的空白，与社区成员一起举办的参与式推测设计研讨会将为目前不受支持的家庭讲故事实践提供技术创意。这项工作的成果将是（1）表征纪念品技术设计方法的理论框架，（2）支持通过数字纪念品讲述家庭故事的纪念品技术设计范例，以及（3）对家庭社交互动的普适计算技术的文化敏感设计的设计影响。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用 基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。