CAREER: Towards Keepsake Technologies to Support Intergenerational Family Memory Practices

这个项目将有助于概念，技术和经验的见解，无处不在的计算技术与家庭记忆的社会研究。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。一种新兴的系统，“纪念品技术”，将数字纪念品的交互性集成到物理对象中，无缝地融入家庭生活。设备范围从互动纪念盒到已故家庭成员的增强纪念照片祭坛。这些技术可以为家庭中的几代人提供方便和参与的方式来讲述家庭故事，甚至跨越距离和时间来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那些可以使用这些系统来保护重要文化遗产的家庭尤其重要，例如阿巴拉契亚地区的文化少数民族。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，学习和实践文化情境设计方法。研究从该领域的文献综述开始，识别纪念品技术并描述其设计。接下来，它将开发纪念品技术范例，灵感来自以人为中心的计算，设计和无处不在的计算文献中的投机设计概念。这些样本将用于实地研究，以探索纪念品技术如何调解围绕过去故事的家庭社交互动以及故事本身的内容。为了解决文献中的空白，与社区成员的参与性投机设计研讨会将为目前不受支持的家庭故事讲述实践产生技术想法。这项工作的成果将是（1）一个理论框架，表征设计方法的纪念品技术，（2）设计范例的纪念品技术，支持家庭讲故事与数字纪念品，以及（3）该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过评估支持的，基金会的学术价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

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.