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...he fundamental activity of designoriented research as giving form to previously nonexistent artifacts to uncover new knowledge that could not be arrived at otherwise. Researchers such as Gaver et al. =-=[3]-=-, and Sengers et al. [13] (and others too numerous to mention here) have articulated design-oriented approaches that are united in their emphasis on the act of making as a means to critically investig...

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...could be better supported in the future. While we are now deploying the prototype created as a result of this project, this was not our original intention. Through a design-oriented research approach =-=[1]-=-, we aimed to better understand how designers approach and grapple with the slow technology design space specifically through building a fully functional system. It is these insights thatemerged thro...

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...of designoriented research as giving form to previously nonexistent artifacts to uncover new knowledge that could not be arrived at otherwise. Researchers such as Gaver et al. [3], and Sengers et al. =-=[13]-=- (and others too numerous to mention here) have articulated design-oriented approaches that are united in their emphasis on the act of making as a means to critically investigate emerging research iss...

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...y years, which occasionally prints a randomly selected photo from the owner’s Flickr collection inside of a wooden chest. We describe and reflect on how engaging in the design of this slow technology =-=[5]-=- led to some unexpected challenges and provoked us to re-think approaches to making technologies that are intended to be used over long time scales and which might act infrequently. We also reflect on...

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...at precious things may be kept inside of it. This design choice was influenced by prior work illustrating how qualities of certain materials, such as wood, can inspire a perceived sense of durability =-=[11]-=-. Clearly, another approach would have been to design a completely unfamiliar or ambiguous form. This direction has much merit. However, we wanted build on existing socio-cultural associations about t...

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... also a growing interest in how meaningful digital content might persist and be passed down across generations [e.g., 10] and, more generally, the need to consider designing across multiple lifespans =-=[2]-=-. More generally, within the DIS and HCI communities there has been increasing interest in the development of new knowledge through the construction of designed artifacts. Fallman [1] posits the funda...

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...y refined and clustered several conceptually related sets to construct an understanding of the overall design space. Comparable to Schön’s notion of design as a reflective conversation with materials =-=[12]-=-, we engaged in a reflective dialogue with theoretical and empirical materials, and iterative development and critique of the design concepts themselves, to arrive at the final Photobox design. We int...

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... enduring contemporary forms of personal content. It is estimated that Facebook will host roughly 210 billion photos by the end of 2011, making it the largest single photographic archive in the world =-=[4]-=-. These shifts raise many questions for researchers and designers of interactive systems. How will digital photo collections be meaningfully experienced over time as they grow to a size and scale that...

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...ention here) have articulated design-oriented approaches that are united in their emphasis on the act of making as a means to critically investigate emerging research issues. Most recently, Obrenovic =-=[9]-=- has described how engaging in the design of an interactive system itself can play a pioneering role in developing underexplored research spaces. This work highlights the need for more examples of des...

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...onics. This choice was also influenced by prior work describing how ceding autonomy to a system can open up new opportunities for people to actively create meaningful experiences with digital content =-=[7]-=-. We could have curated a special selection of photos from a person’s collection to appear in their Photobox over time. However, we selected randomness to introduce an unfamiliar and potentially disru...