Description
We explore users’ perceptions of how their use of digital systems and information will impact how their lives are interpreted and reflected upon by their families and by future generations. Our findings describe nuances regarding how shifting notions about technological systems and the long-term accessibility of digital information impact the ways in which we share, and subsequently manage, information online. This work, explored here in the context of legacy, exposes opportunities to help users engage with their digital information through the curation of meaningful records, the dispossession of digital debris, and a reexamination of how digital systems and services influence the accessibility and lifespan of digital information.

Documentation
This work is described in a paper that was published and presented at DIS 2014 in Vancouver [ACM Link, Local copy].

Skills
Interviewing
Account Inventories
Directed Storytelling
Grounded Theory

Collaborators
Dr. William Odom
Dr. Jodi Forlizzi
Dr. Haakon Faste