On Appropriation and Nostalgic Reminiscence of Technology
- 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the expanding body of literature within HCI about appropriation, our work pinpoints an area that needs more attention, “outdated technologies.”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.
Document Type: | Conference Object |
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Language: | English |
Author: | Fatemeh Alizadeh, Aikaterini Mniestri, Alarith Uhde, Gunnar Stevens |
Parent Title (English): | CHI EA '22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts, April 29–May 05, 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA |
Article Number: | 287 |
Number of pages: | 6 |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 6 |
ISBN: | 978-1-4503-9156-6 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3519676 |
Date of first publication: | 2022/04/28 |
Copyright: | © 2022 Association for Computing Machinery. Abstracting with credit is permitted. |
Note: | CHI ’22 Extended Abstracts, April 29–May 05, 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA |
Keyword: | appropriation; interaction design; memories; nostalgia; remembering; storytelling |
Departments, institutes and facilities: | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
Institut für Verbraucherinformatik (IVI) | |
Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC): | 0 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 00 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme / 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik |
Entry in this database: | 2022/05/05 |