People externalize their autobiographical memories by creating representations that exist
outside of their minds. Externalizations often serve personal and social functions, consistent …

We carried out fieldwork to characterise and compare physical and digital mementos in the
home. Physical mementos are highly valued, heterogeneous and support different types of …

This article reports empirical findings from four inter-related studies, with an emphasis on
collocated sharing. Collocated sharing remains important, using both traditional and …

Creating digital archives of personal and family artifacts is an area of growing interest, but
which seemingly is often not supported by a thorough understanding of current home …

Little in-depth data exists regarding what users actually do with their camera phones. Our
goal was thus to understand how people use camera phone images for social and personal …

In this paper we introduce the notion of" photowork" as the activities people perform with
their digital photos after cap-ture but prior to end use such as sharing. Surprisingly, these …

We examine the effects of new technologies for digital photography on people's longer term
storage and access to collections of personal photos. We report an empirical study of …

We describe the design and deployment of Olly, a domestic music player that enables
people to re-experience digital music they listened to in the past. Olly uses its owner's Last …

Current technology makes it possible to capture huge amounts of information related to
everyday experiences. Despite this, we know little about the processes by which people …

The representation of sounds derived from everyday life can be beneficial for people with
dementia by evoking memories and emotional responses. Despite this potential, integrating …