MeMa: Designing the Memory Machine

Price, Dominic; Jacobs, Rachel; Darzentas, Dimitrios; Perez Vallejos, Elvira; Chadborn, Neil; Martindale, Sarah; Urquhart, Lachlan

Abstract

The Memory Machine is an ambitious project that aims to develop a device to capture people's memories to create a blend of personal and factual data that builds identities, and contextualizes personal recollections. The Memory Machine has been guided by co-production and user-centred design principles to ensure users' input has a critical role in the development of the technology. Through a series of creative workshops, we facilitated participants to discuss and represent their perceptions of memory making and recollection, towards the design of the Memory Machine. This paper investigates how a creative, participatory process enabled technical topics to be explored together, as well as enabling the participants to address more challenging issues of memory; such as painful memories, memory loss, and memories at end-of-life, with a particular focus on dementia, to inform the future design of the Memory Machine.

Citation

Price, D., Jacobs, R., Darzentas, D., Perez Vallejos, E., Chadborn, N., Martindale, S., & Urquhart, L. (2019, June). MeMa: Designing the Memory Machine. Presented at DIS '19: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2019, San Diego, CA, USA

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (Published)
• Conference Name: DIS '19: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2019
• Start Date: Jun 23, 2019
• End Date: Jun 28, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Jun 18, 2019
• Publication Date: 2019
• Deposit Date: Mar 16, 2022
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Pages: 271-276
• Book Title: DIS '19 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2019 Companion
• ISBN: 978-1-4503-6270-2
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3301019.3323882
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2854930