Experiences With Designing Tools for Everyday Reminiscing
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Reminiscing is a valuable activity throughout the lifespan, helping people establish and maintain their identities and their relationships. Much of this happens in an everyday way, with reminiscing arising naturally out of one's experiences, thoughts, and conversations. In this article we describe work around Pensieve, a tool to support everyday, spontaneous, individual reminiscing through memory triggers—e-mailed reminders that contain snippets from content one has previously created in social media or generic questions that encourage people to reflect on their past. Through a combination of interviews, questionnaires, design activities, and a long-term deployment of Pensieve, we demonstrate the potential value of social media content such as Facebook wall posts and status updates for supporting reminiscence, the utility of systems that support spontaneous reminiscing and writing about the past, the importance of reminders to both reminiscing and lifelogging systems, and insights into people's current pr...
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Individuals engage in reminiscing when browsing through their social media profiles and the photos stored on their smartphones.
“It has been observed that individuals engage in reminiscing when browsing through their social media profiles and the photos stored on their smartphones (Cosley et al., 2012;van Gennip et al., 2015).”
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- Authors
- Cosley, D., Sosik, V. S., Schultz, J., Peesapati, S. T., & Lee, S.
- Affiliations
- Cornell University (US)
- University of Michigan (US)
- Oracle (United States) (US)
- University of California
- ORCID
- Cosley, Dan
- Venue
- Human–Computer Interaction
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2012-04-05
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 1-2
- Pages
- 175-198
- ISSN
- 0737-0024 (ISSN-L)
- 1532-7051
- OpenAlex
- W1499897389
- Cited by
- 76
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 13 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 8 · 2013: 8 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 12.78
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Human-Computer Interaction (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Personal Information Management and User Behavior
- Keywords
- reminiscence, memory triggers, social media, Facebook, email reminders, lifelogging, identity, reflection on the past
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