1. REMEMBERING TODAY TOMORROW:
EXPLORING THE HUMAN-CENTERED
DESIGN OF DIGITAL MEMENTOS
2012198073 Yein Jo

2. CONTENTS
 Introduction
 Digital mementos
 Related works – Participatory design, Critical design
 Field study
 Design study
 Results & Conclusion
 Personal critique

3. INTRODUCTION
 Human centered design > user centered design
 Understanding the need to understand meanings and values
and the way they can affect the use of technology

4. DIGITAL MEMENTOS
 Standardize technology based on the understanding of human value
 Making digital device which can provoke one’s emotion
 Deep understanding of the aspects of personal life

5. RELATED WORKS
 Participatory design (PD)
 Users and designers co-working
 Giving values to both human and operational improvement
 Better products/productivity
 Critical design
 To aid the limit of PD; broaden the “space of possibilities”

6. FIELD STUDIES
 Why and how a material object becomes a memento
 Understanding the nature of long term remembering

7. WEAKNESS OF CURRENT DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY
FOR PERSONAL MEMORIES
 Inaccessibility
 Lack of integration into everyday life
 Not self-contained
 Work oriented

8. DESIGN STUDY:
Participants + Designers
 3 workshops with discussion
Artifacts with the intention of developing understanding of participants’ current
practices
 needs potential new practices and roles for technology
 To designers
insight into participants’ current practices and needs
tacit appreciation of participants’ needs in respect of the newly envisaged possibilities

9. RESULT & CONCLUSION
 “Reflection”, the key mechanism
 Digital device should be accessible, discoverable and reflect
 Interpretation of the field work + researcher’s understanding of the context

10. PERSONAL CRITIQUE
 A new approach to access to the users
 Low productivity, efficiency
 Unrealistic to take account individual situation
 Is it necessary to investigate?

11. Thank U