Memory Museum - About the Project

Replicating Keepsake Technologies

Over the past 20+ years, HCI researchers have been exploring “technology-mediated memory” systems: specially designed objects with digital multimedia recording, storage, and playback ability, typically designed for individuals to keep and share their memories with each other digitally. We call these "keepsake technologies."

The Memory Museum features replication projects of keepsake technologies focused on family memories, collective remembering, and storytelling.

Want to get involved? Contact the PI Jasmine Jones at Berea College!

Supporting Undergraduate STEM Research

Students involved in this project will build research, build and test one “artifact” for the Memory Museum. The methodology of this work is known as research-through-design . Studies involve creating an artifact (in this case fabricating a physical computing device) and reasoning about the artifact’s form, function and its assumed value and purpose. In a research-through-design framework, new knowledge is formed through 1) the creative process of product design and implementation, and 2) in critical reflection on the designed product. Typically each replication project featured is the collaborative work of 3-4 undergraduate students.

Funding

This work is hosted at Berea College. This research was supported by a NSF CAREER grant (#1651575) and the Berea Undergraduate Research and Creative Projects Program (URCPP).

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