TY - GEN
T1 - Towards A Design for Life
T2 - 2020 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2020
AU - Gray, Stuart
AU - Hahn, Rachel
AU - Cater, Kirsten
AU - Watson, Debbie
AU - Williams, Keir
AU - Metcalfe, Tom
AU - Meineck, Chloe
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 ACM.
PY - 2020/4/21
Y1 - 2020/4/21
N2 - For 'looked-after' and adopted children, physical objects are often the only remaining link to their pasts; a portal to stories of former families, homes, and events. The act of reminiscence, known as 'life story work', can help children to process their pasts and overcome trauma. This paper describes the user-centred redesign of Trove, a digital and physical memory box for storing and curating stories about precious objects. We describe our redesign process, synthesising the insights from previous Trove evaluations with looked-after and adopted children, and three re-design workshops with 4 looked-after children at a therapeutic residential school. Our findings advocate for prioritisation of Trove's digital and physical security, the sustainability of its companionship, and the provision of multimedia storytelling to encourage the construction of identity narratives. Inspired by this, we present and discuss the redeveloped Trove, before analysing our participatory design approach with these complex and under-represented groups.
AB - For 'looked-after' and adopted children, physical objects are often the only remaining link to their pasts; a portal to stories of former families, homes, and events. The act of reminiscence, known as 'life story work', can help children to process their pasts and overcome trauma. This paper describes the user-centred redesign of Trove, a digital and physical memory box for storing and curating stories about precious objects. We describe our redesign process, synthesising the insights from previous Trove evaluations with looked-after and adopted children, and three re-design workshops with 4 looked-after children at a therapeutic residential school. Our findings advocate for prioritisation of Trove's digital and physical security, the sustainability of its companionship, and the provision of multimedia storytelling to encourage the construction of identity narratives. Inspired by this, we present and discuss the redeveloped Trove, before analysing our participatory design approach with these complex and under-represented groups.
KW - children
KW - life story work
KW - memory boxes
KW - participatory design
KW - reminiscence
KW - social care
KW - storytelling
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85091316396&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3313831.3376824
DO - 10.1145/3313831.3376824
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85091316396
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
BT - CHI 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - ACM
Y2 - 25 April 2020 through 30 April 2020
ER -