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Towards Designing for Everyday Embodied Remembering: Findings from a Diary Study
A diary study exploring the many ways people use their bodies to remember things – like your fingers "knowing" a piano piece even when your mind doesn't. The resulting framework helps designers think about building technology that supports this physical, muscle-based kind of memory.
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Our bodies play an important part in our remembering practices, for example when we can remember passwords by typing, even if we cannot verbalise them. An increasing number of technologies are being developed to support remembering. However, so far, they seem to have not taken the opportunity yet to support remembering through bodily movements. To better understand how to design for such embodied remembering, we conducted a diary study with 12 participants who recorded their embodied remembering experiences in everyday life over a three-week period. Our thematic analysis of the diaries and interviews led to the creation of a framework that helps understand embodied remembering experiences (ERXs) based on the level of skilled and conscious movements used. We describe how this ERX framework could help with the design of technologies to support embodied remembering.
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