Digital artifacts for remebering and storytelling:

PostHistory and Social Network Fragments

F. B. Viegas, D boyd, D. H. Nguyen, J. Potter, and J.

Donath

Speaker: Huang, Yi-Ching

What is life?Sharing life with others has more fun

About storytelling

Telling Stories with MyLifeBits

Location, sensor, photo …etc.

Digital artifacts for remebering and storytelling

PostHistorySocial Network Fragments

About papers

1 F. B. Viegas, D boyd, D. H. Nguyen, J. Potter, and J. Donath. Digital artifacts for remembering and storytelling: Posthistory and social network fragments. In Proceedings of the 37th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Big Island, Hawaii, USA, January 2004.

2 J. Gemmell, A. Aris, and R. Lueder. Telling stories with mylifebits. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), pages 1536-1539, July 2005.

3 J. Gemmell, R. Lueder, and G. Bell. The mylifebits lifetime store. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGMM Workshop on Experiential Telepresence (ETP 2003), pages 80-83, New York, NY, USA, 2003. ACM Press.

Introduction

Two projectsPostHistorySocial Network Fragments

Visualize one’s social interactions in email over time

Intentions

Patterns in email are inaccessible

Social networkEmail exchange rhythmsThe role of time in these patterns

Why visualize?Visualize what?Social landscapesTime and change

PostHistory

Focus on 2 dimensions of email

Time Dyadic relationships with ego

Visualize the changes in interaction between ego and their contacts over time

Impementation

Daily email averagesDaily “quality” of emailsFrequency of email exchanges with contactsComparative frequency of email exchanges with contacts

Calendar panel Contacts panel

Circular mode

Vertical mode

Alphabetical mode

Social Network FragmentsExplore the structure of an individual’ social networkReflect different facet of personal lifeVisualize the patterns during one’s life digital email interactions

Structure

Knowledge tiesAwareness tiesWeak awareness tiesList awareness tiesTrusted ties

Social network panel history panel

Small Evaluation

Test user: 10 peopleUse one of the two systems2 hours interaction

Case studies: 2 peopleUse both two systems10 hours interaction

User’s Reaction

Be excited to recognize almost all the names on the screen

Be eager to share the stories with the people involved

ConcernsUser want to highlight the meaningful periods of activity for future referenceMultiple levels

High-levelLower-level

Too many names to read in overall visualizationCannot understand the pattern’s meaning

Discussion

Not only reflect personally, but also share storyPrivacy

The data is incomprehensible without explanation

Where to go from hereSolution:

Public displaySemi-public displayPersonal

Conclusion

PostHistory and Social Network Fragments are designed to reveal social patterns in email archives

Share memories and storytelling props