Digital artifacts for remembering and storytelling: PostHistory and social network fragments

Fernanda B. Viégas, Danah Boyd, David H. Nguyen, Jeffrey Potter, Judith Donath

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Abstract

As part of a long-term investigation into visualizing email, we have created two visualizations of email archives. One highlights social networks while the other depicts the temporal rhythms of interactions with individuals. While interviewing users of these systems, it became clear that the applications triggered recall of many personal events. One of the most striking and not entirely expected outcomes was that the visualizations motivated retelling stories from the users' pasts to others. In this paper, we discuss the motivation and design of these projects and analyze their use as catalysts for personal narrative and recall.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article numberDDPCN10
Pages (from-to)1753-1762
Number of pages10
JournalProceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Volume37
DOIs
StatePublished - 2004
Externally publishedYes
EventProceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Big Island, HI., United States
Duration: Jan 5 2004Jan 8 2004

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