Joji
Joji Mori (PhD Candidate)
Doctoral Consortium
IDG Group
4th May 2010
Background
Bell, C. G., & Gemmell, J. (2009). Total recall : how the E-memory revolution will
change everything. New York: Dutton.
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“Lifeloggers typically wear computers
in order to capture their entire lives, or
large portions of their lives” wikipedia
Phones – Lifelogging devices
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Smart Phones can be used/are being
used as lifelogging devices
Location aware (GPS, Compass)
 Call, SMS, Email, docs, photos,
video, social network updates
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Hartnell-Young, E., & Vetere, F. (2005). Lifeblog: a new concept in mobile learning?
Paper presented at the Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education. WMTE 2005.
IEEE International Workshop on.
A critique of lifelogging
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Beyond Total Capture: A Constructive
Critique of Lifelogging
Sellen, A., & Whittaker, S. (2010). Beyond total capture: a constructive
critique of lifelogging. Communications of the ACM, 53(5), 70-77.
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Selectivity, not total capture
Cues not capture
Memory refers to a complex, multifaceted set of concepts
Synergy not substitution
Related reference.
Mayer-Schö nberger, Viktor. (2009), Delete : the virtue of forgetting in the digital age /
Viktor Mayer-Schö nberger Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock
Facebook in “The Age”
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Grieving issues - Gas leak tragedy:
grandfather slams Facebook page 3 June
Privacy fears - 30,000 quit Facebook in
protest 2 June
Data Mining - The terrors of Twittering:
growing up in an unexploded data
minefield 5 May
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Our digital past
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It seems inevitable more of our
everyday lives will be captured digitally
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The end of the ephemeral
Harper, R. Rodden, T., Rogers, Y., Sellen, A. (editors), 2008. Being human: Human–
computer interaction in the year 2020. Cambridge: Microsoft Research
Designing for deletion
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How to better design for deletion in
technology that stores personal digital
content?
Think Email – does anyone have a
good email storage/deletion system?
Think Facebook – What should happen
to mundane, day to day stuff well into
future? Inappropriate or incorrect
comments relating to you, regretful
photos, how do you delete a friend?
Designing for deletion
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Limited storage
Active
storage/deletion
Stored
Deleted
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Abundant storage
Accumulate
Stored
Demotion
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GrayArea
Bergman, O., Tucker, S., Beyth-Marom, R., Cutrell, E., & Whittaker, S. (2009). It's not
that important: demoting personal information of low subjective importance using
GrayArea. Paper presented at the Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009 Conference on Human
Factors in Computing Systems.
Candidate audiences
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Everyday life
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The commuter (yesterday’s observation)
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Reading MX
Spacing out * 2
Music on phone * 2
News on phone * 2 (I was reading sport news)
Billiards game on phone
Candidate audiences
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Youth into adulthood
Formal processes for deletion
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Museums (unwanted artifacts)
Photographer – what to delete / keep?
Hard waste
Juvenile Crime, Bankruptcy Law
Allen, A. L. (2008). Dredging up the Past: Lifelogging, Memory, and Surveillance.
University of Chicago Law Review, 75(1), 47-74.
Consider death
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When you create a will, you decide the
future of items of monetary, and
emotional value
What digital content should be kept
and who should have access to it?
What should be deleted?
Related Research
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Technology Heirlooms
Kirk, D. S. & Banks R. (2008). On the design of technology heirlooms. International
Workshop on Social Interaction and Mundane Technologies (SIMTech ’08).
Personal Experience
Question for you
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How should I best spend my time prior
to collecting data, as the topic is still
being formulated?
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Especially given we typically apply
grounded theory
Is meeting people and reading relevant
literature enough?
Contact details
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Room 2.33
Email: j.mori@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au
Phone: 8344-1554