User needs and design guidelines for mobile services for sharing digital life memories

  • Authors:
  • Thomas Olsson;Hannu Soronen;Kaisa Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila

  • Affiliations:
  • Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland;Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland;Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Digital media content can contain items that are very personal and valuable for their owner. Such items can form life memories, such as media collages from happy events or recordings of the first steps of one's children. Memories can be evoked and created "anytime, anyplace", and thus mobility is a key factor in managing them. Even though related systems for sharing photographs exist, users' needs for managing personal content have not been investigated specifically from the viewpoint of life memories. This paper describes our empirical research on users' needs for sharing the digital representations of their life memories. As the main contribution, we present design guidelines for services for sharing digital life memories. Furthermore, we present a mobile service prototype which was designed based on the guidelines. Our research shows that the creation, sharing, managing and viewing of digital life memories is highly based on meaningful real-life events.