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Passing on & putting to rest : Understanding bereavement in the context of interactive technologies. / Odom, W.; Harper, R.; Sellen, A. et al.
CHI '10 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York : ACM, 2010. p. 1831-1840.Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
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TY - GEN
T1 - Passing on & putting to rest
T2 - Understanding bereavement in the context of interactive technologies
AU - Odom, W.
AU - Harper, R.
AU - Sellen, A.
AU - Kirk, D.
AU - Banks, R.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - While it can be a delicate and emotionally-laden topic, new technological trends compel us to confront a range of problems and issues about death and bereavement. This area presents complex challenges and the associated literature is extensive. In this paper we offer a way of slicing through several perspectives in the social sciences to see clearly a set of salient issues related to bereavement. Following this, we present a theoretical lens to provide a way of conceptualizing how the HCI community could begin to approach such issues. We then report field evidence from 11 in-depth interviews conducted with bereaved participants and apply the proposed lens to unpack key emergent problems and tensions. We conclude with a discussion on how the HCI design space might be sensitized to better support the social processes that unfold when bereavement occurs. © 2010 ACM.
AB - While it can be a delicate and emotionally-laden topic, new technological trends compel us to confront a range of problems and issues about death and bereavement. This area presents complex challenges and the associated literature is extensive. In this paper we offer a way of slicing through several perspectives in the social sciences to see clearly a set of salient issues related to bereavement. Following this, we present a theoretical lens to provide a way of conceptualizing how the HCI community could begin to approach such issues. We then report field evidence from 11 in-depth interviews conducted with bereaved participants and apply the proposed lens to unpack key emergent problems and tensions. We conclude with a discussion on how the HCI design space might be sensitized to better support the social processes that unfold when bereavement occurs. © 2010 ACM.
KW - bereavement
KW - digital persistence
KW - understanding people
KW - HCI design
KW - In-depth interviews
KW - Interactive technology
KW - Social process
KW - Technological trends
KW - Human engineering
KW - Lenses
KW - Optical instruments
U2 - 10.1145/1753326.1753601
DO - 10.1145/1753326.1753601
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 9781605589299
SP - 1831
EP - 1840
BT - CHI '10 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - ACM
CY - New York
ER -