Towards A Design For Life: Redesigning For Reminiscence With Looked After Children

Stuart Gray; Rachel Hahn; Kirsten F Cater; Debbie L Watson; Keir S A Williams; Thomas J B 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 F Cater, Debbie L Watson, Keir S A Williams, Thomas J B 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)	978-1-4503-6708-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376824
Publication status	Published - 21 Apr 2020
Event	ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Honolulu, United States Duration: 25 Apr 2020 → 30 Apr 2020 https://chi2020.acm.org/

Conference

Conference	ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Abbreviated title	CHI 2020
Country	United States
Period	25/04/20 → 30/04/20
Internet address	https://chi2020.acm.org/

Keywords

Children
Life Story Work
Social Care
Tangible User Interfaces

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Gray, S., Hahn, R., Cater, K. F., Watson, D. L., Williams, K. S. A., Metcalfe, T. J. B., & 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). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376824

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Towards A Design For Life: Redesigning For Reminiscence With Looked After Children. / Gray, Stuart ; Hahn, Rachel ; Cater, Kirsten F ; Watson, Debbie L ; Williams, Keir S A ; Metcalfe, Thomas J B; Meineck, Chloe.

CHI '20: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2020. p. 1-14.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Contribution (Conference Proceeding)

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