Towards Designing for Everyday Embodied Remembering: Findings from a Diary Study
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 2023•dl.acm.org
Our bodies play an important part in our remembering practices, for example when we can
remember passwords by typing, even if we cannot verbalise them. An increasing number of
technologies are being developed to support remembering. However, so far, they seem to
have not taken the opportunity yet to support remembering through bodily movements. To
better understand how to design for such embodied remembering, we conducted a diary
study with 12 participants who recorded their embodied remembering experiences in …
remember passwords by typing, even if we cannot verbalise them. An increasing number of
technologies are being developed to support remembering. However, so far, they seem to
have not taken the opportunity yet to support remembering through bodily movements. To
better understand how to design for such embodied remembering, we conducted a diary
study with 12 participants who recorded their embodied remembering experiences in …
Our bodies play an important part in our remembering practices, for example when we can remember passwords by typing, even if we cannot verbalise them. An increasing number of technologies are being developed to support remembering. However, so far, they seem to have not taken the opportunity yet to support remembering through bodily movements. To better understand how to design for such embodied remembering, we conducted a diary study with 12 participants who recorded their embodied remembering experiences in everyday life over a three-week period. Our thematic analysis of the diaries and interviews led to the creation of a framework that helps understand embodied remembering experiences (ERXs) based on the level of skilled and conscious movements used. We describe how this ERX framework could help with the design of technologies to support embodied remembering.
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