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AutoTopography : what can physical mementos tell us about digital memories

Current technology makes it possible to capture huge amounts of information related to everyday experiences. Despite this, we know little about the processes by which people identify and manage mementos - objects which are directly meaningful to their memories. Among the millions of objects people encounter in a lifetime, few become such reminders of people, places or events. We report fieldwork where participants gave us a tour of their homes describing how and why particular objects become mementos. Ourfindings extend the existing digital memory literature...

這篇研究目的是說, 實體世界中, 如何透過設計來當人們看到,摸到, 聽到, 聞到...等運用不同感官接觸到真實的物件(文中所謂的紀念品)時, 讓我們產生當時背後那段扣人心懸的故事或是記憶. 如同文中所提到的, 當我們看到一隻泰迪熊,它就是一個記憶的trigger(觸發)符號, 讓我們回想起某個人,某件事......等.

延伸閱讀:
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1357054.1357065&coll=portal&dl=ACM&type=series&idx=SERIES260&part=series&WantType=Proceedings&title=CHI&CFID=39816906&CFTOKEN=69685604