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      Proceedings of HCI 2007 The 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference University of Lancaster, UK (HCI)
      British HCI Group Annual Conference
      3 - 7 September 2007
      Memory, memory prosthesis, sociology, psychology, digital narratives, wearable data capture, SenseCam
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            This paper reports the trial of a memory prosthesis, SenseCam, as a resource for digital narratives. Over a period of one week, six participants were asked to use SenseCams to capture digital traces of their experiences, and to use the same to create ‘story telling’ materials for presentation. The study found that all users delighted in the devices, though the traces that the SenseCams produced were not analogues to their own memory. Instead, the data traces presented a picture of daily life which was at once different to the one recollected by participants and yet brought a sense of wonder, depth and felt-life that was enriching. Furthermore, SenseCam data enabled participants to create artistic and evocative stories about prosaic activities that would not normally merit being recounted. The paper will comment on the implications these findings have for memory prosthesis device design, and on the epistemological assumptions underscoring them.

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            Conference
            September 2007
            September 2007
            : 1-4
            Affiliations
            [0001]Microsoft Research

            JJ Thomson Av

            Cambridge, UK

            Tel+44 (0)1223 479824
            [0002]Manchester Metropolitan University

            Dep’t of Sociology

            Geoffrey Manton Building M16 5LL

            Tel (+44) 161 247 3037
            [0003]BBC Wales and BBC White City,

            Shepard’s Bush, London
            Article
            10.14236/ewic/HCI2007.56
            0227a1d9-927f-4484-9af2-329c37f81e25
            © Harper, R. et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of HCI 2007 The 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference University of Lancaster, UK

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            Proceedings of HCI 2007 The 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference University of Lancaster, UK
            HCI
            21
            Lancaster, UK
            3 - 7 September 2007
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            British HCI Group Annual Conference
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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            Electronic Workshops in Computing

            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction
            wearable data capture,Memory,memory prosthesis,sociology, psychology,digital narratives,SenseCam

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