FM radio: family interplay with sonic mementos

  • Authors:
  • Daniela Petrelli;Nicolas Villar;Vaiva Kalnikaite;Lina Dib;Steve Whittaker

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom;Microsoft Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom;University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom;Rice University, Houston, TX, USA;University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Digital mementos are increasingly problematic, as people acquire large amounts of digital belongings that are hard to access and often forgotten. Based on fieldwork with 10 families, we designed a new type of embodied digital memento, the FM Radio. It allows families to access and play sonic mementos of their previous holidays. We describe our underlying design motivation where recordings are presented as a series of channels on an old fashioned radio. User feedback suggests that the device met our design goals: being playful and intriguing, easy to use and social. It facilitated family interaction, and allowed ready access to mementos, thus sharing many of the properties of physical mementos that we intended to trigger.