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Lost in translation: Understanding the possession of digital things in the Cloud

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Publication date5/05/2012
Host publicationCHI '12 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Place of PublicationNew York
PublisherACM
Pages781-790
Number of pages10
ISBN (print)9781450310154
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

People are amassing larger and more diverse collections of digital things. The emergence of Cloud computing has enabled people to move their personal files to online places, and create new digital things through online services. However, little is known about how this shift might shape people's orientations toward their digital things. To investigate, we conducted in depth interviews with 13 people comparing and contrasting how they think about their possessions, moving from physical ones, to locally kept digital materials, to the online world. Findings are interpreted to detail design and research opportunities in this emerging space. Copyright 2012 ACM.