Exploring Post-mortem Storytelling Applications

Post-mortem storytelling, a process of remembering deceased loved ones has attracted research attention from the HCI research community recently. Much work done by the community covered most aspects related to the use of social networks. However, little is known how social networks could have limited how bereaved persons are willing to express themselves. In light of this, this doctoral thesis is aimed at investigating how mobile digital storytelling could be designed to support people grieving in private and social spaces and evaluate them extensively.

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Grace Ataguba

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Publication date: July 2018

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2018.197

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Conference name: Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference

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Conference number: 32

Conference location: Belfast, UK

Conference date: 4 - 6 July 2018

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[1] M. A. Ahmad 2016 After Death: Big Data and the Promise of Resurrection by Proxy In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems 397 408 ACM

[2] G. AtagubaS. PenriceJ. Shearer 2017 July Exploring Storytelling for Digital Memorialization In International Conference on Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population 103 113 Springer, Cham

[3] E. Bos 1995 Making the dead live on: an interactive, talking picture of a deceased person ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society 25 1 7 9

[4] J. Bowlby 1980 Attachment and loss (Vol. III) Loss NY Basic Books

[5] J. R. BrubakerG. R. Hayes 2011 We will never forget you [online]: An empirical investigation of post-mortem MySpace comments In Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work 123 132 ACM

[6] J. R. BrubakerF. Kivran-SwaineL. TaberG. R. Hayes 2012 Grief-Stricken in a Crowd: The Language of Bereavement and Distress in Social Media 42 49 ICWSM

[7] J. R. BrubakerG. R. HayesP. Dourish 2013 Beyond the grave: Facebook as a site for the expansion of death and mourning The Information Society 29 3 152 163

[8] J. R. BrubakerL. S. DombrowskiA. M. GilbertN. KusumakaulikaG. R. Hayes 2014 Stewarding a legacy: responsibilities and relationships in the management of post-mortem data In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 4157 4166 ACM

[9] C. ChaudhariA. PrakashA. M. TsaasanJ. R. BrubakerJ. Tanenbaum 2016 February Penseive box: themes for digital memorialization practices In Proceedings of the TEI’16: Tenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction 398 403 ACM

[10] J. C. Chen 2014 InMind: mobile application for sharing the status of serious stuff (Doctoral dissertation) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

[11] M. R. Dennis 2008 The grief account: Dimensions of a contemporary bereavement genre Death Studies 32 9 801 836

[12] K. FalconerM. SachsenwegerK. GibsonH. Norman 2011 Grieving in the Internet Age New Zealand Journal of Psychology 40 3 79 88

[13] M. E. FrancisJ. W. PennebakerR. J. Booth 1993 Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count. Technical Report Technical Report, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX

[14] E. GettyJ. CobbM. GabelerC. NelsonE. WengJ. Hancock 2011 May I said your name in an empty room: grieving and continuing bonds on facebook In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on human factors in computing systems 997 1000 ACM

[15] K. R. Gilbert 2002 Taking a narrative approach to grief research: Finding meaning in stories Death studies 26 3 223 239

[16] M. G. GorbetM. OrthH. Ishii 1998 January Triangles: tangible interface for manipulation and exploration of digital information topography In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems 49 56 ACM Press/Addison-Wesley Publishing Co

[17] A. Gubrium 2009 Digital storytelling: An emergent method for health promotion research and practice Health promotion practice 10 2 186 191

[18] A. HallD. BosevskiR. Larkin 2006 October Blogging by the Dead In Proceedings of the 4th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: changing roles 425 428 ACM

[19] N. S. HoganL. A. Schmidt 2002 Testing the grief to personal growth model using structural equation 6odelling Death Studies 26 8 615 634

[20] F. KensingJ. Blomberg 1998 Participatory design: Issues and concerns Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 7 3-4 167 185

[21] D. KlassP. R. SilvermanS. Nickman (Eds.) 2014 Continuing bonds: New understandings of grief Taylor & Francis NY

[22] L. Klastrup 2015 “I didn‟t know her, but…”: parasocial mourning of mediated deaths on Facebook RIP pages New review of hypermedia and multimedia 21 1-2 146 164

[23] R. E. Kubler 1969 On death and dying 22 4 45 9 Macmillan, New York

[24] A. W. Love 2007 Progress in understanding grief, complicated grief, and caring for the bereaved Contemporary Nurse 27 1 73 83

[25] L. Machin 2008 Working with loss and grief: A new model for practitioners Sage

[26] I. Y. Malenkovich 2013 Grief lives online: An empirical study of Kübler-ross‟ categories of bereavement on MySpace profiles (Doctoral dissertation). Portland State University, Oregon

[27] M. MapleH. E. EdwardsV. MinichielloD. Plummer 2013 Still part of the family: The importance of physical, emotional and spiritual memorial places and spaces for parents bereaved through the suicide death of their son or daughter Mortality 18 1 54 71

[28] M. Massimi 2012 Thanatosensitively designed technologies for bereavement (Doctoral dissertation). University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario

[29] M. MassimiR. M. Baecker 2010 A death in the family: opportunities for designing technologies for the bereaved In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems 1821 1830 ACM

[30] W. MoncurM. JuliusE. Van Den HovenD. Kirk 2015 Story Shell: the participatory design of a bespoke digital memorial In Proceedings of 4th Participatory Innovation Conference 470 477

[31] R. A. Neimeyer 2000 Searching for the meaning of meaning: Grief therapy and the process of reconstruction Death studies 24 6 541 558

[32] M. O‟ConnorJ. WattsM. BloomerK. Larkins 2010 Loss and grief in the workplace: What can we learn from the literature? International Journal of Workplace Health Management 3 2 131 135

[33] W. OdomR. HarperA. SellenD. KirkR. Banks 2010 Passing on & putting to rest: understanding bereavement in the context of interactive technologies In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems 1831 1840 ACM

[34] J. W. PennebakerT. J. MayneM. E. Francis 1997 Linguistic predictors of adaptive bereavement Journal of personality and social psychology 72 4 863

[35] R. Randall 2009 Loss and climate change: The cost of parallel narratives Ecopsychology 1 3 118 129

[36] T. ReitmaierG. Marsden 2009 Bringing digital storytelling to the mobile In IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 750 753 Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

[37] G. RichesP. Dawson 1998 Lost children, living memories: The role of photographs in processes of grief and adjustment among bereaved parent Death studies 22 2 121 140

[38] L. RomeroN. Correia 2003 HyperReal: a hypermedia model for mixed reality In Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia 2 9 ACM

[39] J. SandersonP. Hope Cheong 2010 Tweeting Prayers and Communicating Grief Over Michael Jackson Online Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society 30 5 328 340

[40] C. SasS. WhittakerJ. Zimmerman 2016 Design for rituals of letting go: An embodiment perspective on disposal practices informed by grief therapy ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) 23 4 21

[41] L. Schafer 2004 Models for digital storytelling and interactive narratives In 4th international conference on Computational Semiotics for Games and New Media 148 155 Split Croatia

[42] A. J. SellenS. Whittaker 2010 Beyond total capture: a constructive critique of lifelogging Communications of the ACM 53 5 70 77

[43] A. SmithL. ReitsmaE. van den HovenP. KotzéL. Coetzee 2011 Towards preserving indigenous oral stories using tangible objects In International Conference on Culture and Computing 86 91 IEEE

[44] M. S. StroebeH. Schut 2001 Meaning making in the dual process model of coping with bereavement Meaning reconstruction and the experience of loss 55 73

[45] T. Walter 1996 A new model of grief: Bereavement and biography Mortality 1 1 7 25

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