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Masters Final Project 2008
Tangible Memories and Elders:
Objects as Containers, Reminders & Instruments
Eun Kyoung Choe
Advisor: Coye Cheshire
May 15, 2008
7:30pm 202 South Hall
School of Information | University of California, Berkeley
One day, it would be
possible to record all the
world’s facts and store
them in a Web-like
database
LIFE-LOGGING
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LIFE-LOGGING
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ELDERS
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KEY QUESTIONS
What do elderly people want to remember, what do
they need to remember?
How do they capture, keep and recall meaningful
memories in their everyday life?
What triggers memory?
HOW TO DESIGN THE STUDY?
Participant
Recruitment
Interview
Digitization of
data
Analysis
Findings
Writing Notes
Relying on
Others
Memory
Practice
Having things
within reach
Iteration
Hanging
Organizing
INTERVIEWEES
Purposive sampling
Average age: 70.7
No.
P1
P2
GENDER AGE WORKING
JOB
/RETIRED DESCRIPTION
M
56
W
Architect
Teacher/
F
61
W
Counselor
LIVING
WHO THEY
SOCIAL
STRUCTURE LIVE WITH PARTICIPATION
House
Spouse
Y
Apartment
N/A(Alone)
Y
P3
M
57
W
Professor
House
Spouse
Y
P4
F
72
R
Apartment
N/A(Alone)
Y
P5
F
68
R
House
N/A(Alone)
N
P6
M
74
W
House
N/A(Alone)
Y
P7
F
87
R
Assisted Living
Residents
N
P8
M
70
R
Apartment
N/A(Alone)
N
P9
F
91
R
Ph.D Student
Medical social
worker
Architect/
Cartographer
Actress/
Housewife
Mail Carrier
Secretary/
Housewife
House
Son
N
HOW TO DESIGN THE STUDY?
Participant
Recruitment
Interview
Digitization of
data
Analysis
Findings
Writing Notes
Relying on
Others
Memory
Practice
Having things
within reach
Iteration
Hanging
Organizing
INTERVIEW QUESTIONNAIRES
•Directions
•Location of common items
•Location of uncommon items
•To do list
•Grocery shopping list
•Keeping appointments
•People’s names, faces
•Medication
•Important dates
•Bills
•Calendars
•Diaries
•Alarms/watches
•Whiteboard, corkboard
•Hanging
•Photos
•Post-it notes
•Hand-held electronics
•Relying on other’s memory
HOW TO DESIGN THE STUDY?
Participant
Recruitment
Interview
Digitization of
data
Analysis
Findings
Writing Notes
Relying on
Others
Memory
Practice
Having things
within reach
Iteration
Hanging
Organizing
TAMS(Text Analysis Markup System)
HOW TO DESIGN THE STUDY?
Participant
Recruitment
Interview
Digitization of
data
Analysis
Findings
Writing Notes
Relying on
Others
Memory
Practice
Having things
within reach
Iteration
Hanging
Organizing
FINDINGS
WHAT TO REMEMBER?
: MEMORY TYPES
Informational Memories
Personal Memories
- Positive / Negative
HOW TO REMEMBER?
: MEMORY OBJECTS
Memory objects:
1) has to evoke memories
2) should be meaningful to owner
PHOTOGRAPH
CHILDHOOD ITEMS
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LETTERS/
CARDS
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SUMMARY: MEMORY OBJECTS
Memory objects mostly associated with personal
memories
Meaningful but not always useful
Functionally, they contain memories and serve as
reminders
Intangible items
•less frequently mentioned but very strong memory cues
>>Attached memories make memory objects special
HOW TO REMEMBER?
: MEMORY PRACTICES
Memory practice: A custom that people do for
remembering either informational memories or
personal memories
WRITING NOTES
HANGING
ORGANIZING
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HAVING THINGS WITHIN REACH
RELYING ON OTHERS
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SUMMARY: MEMORY PRACTICES
Memory practices are actions that place constant
and reliable reminders
Memory practices often involve instruments (tools to
capture memories) such as a note, diary, tack board,
post-it.
Memory objects or instruments can serve as
tangible reminders
final slide: TANGIBLE MEMORIES AND ELDERS
TANGIBLE OBJECTS: contain memories, serve as
reminders, and instruments to capture memories
Memory instruments must be easy to use: familiar
everyday objects, highly tangible interfaces
Should not require much learning to use
Should encourage the use of different senses in the
process of capturing and recalling memories
QUESTIONS?