Towards A Design for Life: Redesigning for Reminiscence with Looked after Children

Stuart Gray; Rachel Hahn; Kirsten Cater; Debbie Watson; Keir Williams; Tom Metcalfe; Chloe Meineck

doi:10.1145/3313831.3376824

Towards A Design for Life: Redesigning for Reminiscence with Looked after Children

Stuart Gray, Rachel Hahn, Kirsten Cater, Debbie Watson, Keir Williams, Tom Metcalfe, Chloe Meineck

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Abstract

For 'looked-after' and adopted children, physical objects are often the only remaining link to their pasts; a portal to stories of former families, homes, and events. The act of reminiscence, known as 'life story work', can help children to process their pasts and overcome trauma. This paper describes the user-centred redesign of Trove, a digital and physical memory box for storing and curating stories about precious objects. We describe our redesign process, synthesising the insights from previous Trove evaluations with looked-after and adopted children, and three re-design workshops with 4 looked-after children at a therapeutic residential school. Our findings advocate for prioritisation of Trove's digital and physical security, the sustainability of its companionship, and the provision of multimedia storytelling to encourage the construction of identity narratives. Inspired by this, we present and discuss the redeveloped Trove, before analysing our participatory design approach with these complex and under-represented groups.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI '20: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	1-14
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450367080
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376824 https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376824
Publication status	Published - 21 Apr 2020
Event	2020 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2020 - Honolulu, United States Duration: 25 Apr 2020 → 30 Apr 2020

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

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Conference	2020 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2020
Country/Territory	United States
City	Honolulu
Period	25/04/20 → 30/04/20

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Bristol Interaction Group

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children
life story work
memory boxes
participatory design
reminiscence
social care
storytelling

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Gray, S., Hahn, R., Cater, K., Watson, D., Williams, K., Metcalfe, T., & Meineck, C. (2020). Towards A Design for Life: Redesigning for Reminiscence with Looked after Children. In CHI '20: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-14). Article 3376824 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376824, https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376824

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Gray, S, Hahn, R, Cater, K , Watson, D, Williams, K, Metcalfe, T & Meineck, C 2020, Towards A Design for Life: Redesigning for Reminiscence with Looked after Children. in CHI '20: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 3376824, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 1-14, 2020 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2020, Honolulu, United States, 25/04/20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376824, https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376824

Towards A Design for Life: Redesigning for Reminiscence with Looked after Children. / Gray, Stuart; Hahn, Rachel; Cater, Kirsten et al.
CHI '20: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2020. p. 1-14 3376824 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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Gray S, Hahn R, Cater K , Watson D, Williams K, Metcalfe T et al. Towards A Design for Life: Redesigning for Reminiscence with Looked after Children. In CHI '20: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2020. p. 1-14. 3376824. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). doi: 10.1145/3313831.3376824, 10.1145/3313831.3376824

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