TY - CHAP U1 - Konferenzveröffentlichung A1 - Alizadeh, Fatemeh A1 - Mniestri, Aikaterini A1 - Uhde, Alarith A1 - Stevens, Gunnar T1 - On Appropriation and Nostalgic Reminiscence of Technology T2 - CHI EA '22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts, April 29–May 05, 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA N2 - Technological objects present themselves as necessary, only to become obsolete faster than ever before. This phenomenon has led to a population that experiences a plethora of technological objects and interfaces as they age, which become associated with certain stages of life and disappear thereafter. Noting the expanding body of literature within HCI about appropriation, our work pinpoints an area that needs more attention, “outdated technologies.” In other words, we assert that design practices can profit as much from imaginaries of the future as they can from reassessing artefacts from the past in a critical way. In a two-week fieldwork with 37 HCI students, we gathered an international collection of nostalgic devices from 14 different countries to investigate what memories people still have of older technologies and the ways in which these memories reveal normative and accidental use of technological objects. We found that participants primarily remembered older technologies with positive connotations and shared memories of how they had adapted and appropriated these technologies, rather than normative uses. We refer to this phenomenon as nostalgic reminiscence. In the future, we would like to develop this concept further by discussing how nostalgic reminiscence can be operationalized to stimulate speculative design in the present. KW - nostalgia KW - storytelling KW - remembering KW - memories KW - interaction design KW - appropriation SN - 978-1-4503-9156-6 SB - 978-1-4503-9156-6 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3519676 DO - https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3519676 N1 - CHI ’22 Extended Abstracts, April 29–May 05, 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA SP - 1 EP - 6 S1 - 6 ER -