MeMa: Designing the Memory Machine

Price, Dominic; Jacobs, Rachel; Darzentas, Dimitrios; Perez Vallejos, Elvira; Chadborn, Neil; Martindale, Sarah; Urquhart, Lachlan

Abstract

The Memory Machine is an ambitious project that aims to develop a device to capture people's memories to create a blend of personal and factual data that builds identities, and contextualizes personal recollections. The Memory Machine has been guided by co-production and user-centred design principles to ensure users' input has a critical role in the development of the technology. Through a series of creative workshops, we facilitated participants to discuss and represent their perceptions of memory making and recollection, towards the design of the Memory Machine. This paper investigates how a creative, participatory process enabled technical topics to be explored together, as well as enabling the participants to address more challenging issues of memory; such as painful memories, memory loss, and memories at end-of-life, with a particular focus on dementia, to inform the future design of the Memory Machine.

Citation

Price, D., Jacobs, R., Darzentas, D., Perez Vallejos, E., Chadborn, N., Martindale, S., & Urquhart, L. (2019). MeMa: Designing the Memory Machine. In Companion Publication of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2019 Companion (271--276). https://doi.org/10.1145/3301019.3323882

• Conference Name: DIS '19: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2019
• Conference Location: San Diego CA USA
• Start Date: Jun 23, 2019
• End Date: Jun 28, 2019
• Acceptance Date: May 7, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Jun 18, 2019
• Publication Date: Jun 18, 2019
• Deposit Date: Aug 6, 2019
• Pages: 271--276
• Book Title: Companion Publication of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2019 Companion
• ISBN: 9781450362702
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3301019.3323882
• Keywords: co-design, dementia, health, interface design, memories, recollection, togetherness, well-being
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2223534
• Publisher URL: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3301019.3323882
• Additional Information: ©ACM, 2017 . ; Published in Proceeding : DIS '19 Companion Companion Publication of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2019 Companion. Pages 271-276 San Diego, CA, USA — June 23 - 28, 2019 ; ACM : New York, NY, USA, ©2019 ; ISBN: 978-1-4503-6270-2 doi: 10.1145/3301019.3323882