Abstract
We examine the effects of new technologies for digital photography on people's longer term storage and access to collections of personal photos. We report an empirical study of parents' ability to retrieve photos related to salient family events from more than a year ago. Performance was relatively poor with people failing to find almost 40% of pictures. We analyze participants' organizational and access strategies to identify reasons for this poor performance. Possible reasons for retrieval failure include: storing too many pictures, rudimentary organization, use of multiple storage systems, failure to maintain collections and participants' false beliefs about their ability to access photos. We conclude by exploring the technical and theoretical implications of these findings.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 31-43 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Personal and Ubiquitous Computing |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 2010 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We thank our participants for their time and efforts. This research was funded by the European Union Marie Curie Grant, TOK 30008 (Memoir). The authors are solely responsible for the content of this paper. It does not represent the opinion of supporting funding agencies, and the supporters are not responsible for any use that might be made of data appearing therein.
Funding
We thank our participants for their time and efforts. This research was funded by the European Union Marie Curie Grant, TOK 30008 (Memoir). The authors are solely responsible for the content of this paper. It does not represent the opinion of supporting funding agencies, and the supporters are not responsible for any use that might be made of data appearing therein.
| Funders | Funder number |
|---|---|
| European Union Marie Curie | TOK 30008 |
Keywords
- Digital memories
- Long term retrieval
- PIM
- Photography