The document discusses how people are remembered after death and the role of personal data in shaping legacies. It explores how data collected about people's lives could be compiled after death to tell their story, and questions whether this helps others understand them. The document advocates considering how one's data could be curated and shared after death to influence the stories and memories that live on.

1. Charlene Zvolanek @char74
Director of Experience Design
Team One USA
#rememberme
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2. Who do we remember?
Friends, family, the famous, the infamous,
idols, our younger selves...
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3. Why do we reminisce?
http://dml.ucdavis.edu/images/DMLgroup.jpg
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4. Bequeathment is a way we help people
remember.
Trigger memory to strengthen and deepen
our attachments.
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5. first screen name
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6. patterns in your data identify noteworthy
periods and activities in your life
• what you’ve done. • what you saw.
• where you’ve gone. • what you said.
• how you got there. • how you looked.
• who you were with. • who was pregnant
• what you bought. • when you had the flu
And your friends. And theirs.
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7. Opting out is getting harder
http://www.ekosystem.org/0_Images/Street3/scandinavia/
aaa_cctv_norway_osloxl.jpg
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8. But who would ever compile all that data?
The NSA. In their Utah Data Center.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/
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9. Imagine that 50 years after death your data
is added to an "open record" and people
are allowed to request full copies...
What story will it tell?
http://www.niemanlab.org/2013/02/a-proposed-florida-law-targets-
http://www.niemanlab.org/2013/02/a-proposed-florida-law-targets-
mugshot-sites-but-hits-journalists-first-amendment-rights/
mugshot-sites-but-hits-journalists-first-amendment-rights/
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10. Will it help people understand you?
...or to understand themselves better?
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11. How do you want
to be remembered?
What is your legacy?
What does legacy
mean to you?
#legacyMeans
@LastingMarks
http://youtu.be/AYURxfaTdpY
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12. We want to be remembered differently by
different people.
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13. How different are those stories?
How do we keep them separate?
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14. And can we hide anything from the big
data pool?
http://www.quora.com/How-does-a-Puli-see
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15. You can influence the stories your data tells
by participating in the curation at creation.
But some system or person will
inevitably put them in a new order.
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16. http://mvz.berkeley.edu/DoingNaturalHistory/herpspath.html
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18. How can we prepare objects for curation?
How can we help others tell better stories
about us?
Tag your data. Attach emotional metadata
attach to objects.
:)
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19. emulation shows how we organized ourselves
http://www.inventinginteractive.com/2010/03/16/salman-rushdies-macintosh/
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20. projected interfaces
http://www.standandstare.com/theatre-jukebox/
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21. interactive sufaces
http://www.meso.net
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22. collaborative collections stored on furniture
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news-gallery/23928/
microsoft-demo-future-possible-surface/5
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23. automatic archives
projected interfaces
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/heirlooms/
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24. 3D printed heirlooms
http://www.hectorserrano.com
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25. gloveless textured objects
Disney Research
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26. immersive rooms
http://www.liveforfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/ROOM-IMMERSIVE-3D-02-
COPYRIGHT-DASSAULT-SYSTEMES.jpg
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27. immersive rooms
http://www.liveforfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/ROOM-IMMERSIVE-3D-01-COPYRIGHT-
DASSAULT-SYSTEMES.jpg
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28. interactive holograms
http://www.standandstare.com/theatre-jukebox/
http://ict.usc.edu/prototypes/new-dimensions-in-testimony/
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29. just can’t get enough holograms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4A_u67EKnU
scottgairdner.com
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30. geotagged messages and data
AR can serendipitously
or intentionally reunite
you with people in the
spaces they occupied
through geotagged
digital artifacts
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31. Takeaways:
Consider sentimental uses of big data
Design systems for curation at creation
Consider the long-term use of your data
Build serendipitous discovery methods into
your projects
Make plans to pass along your data,
accounts and tech assets
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32. Thank you.
Charlene Zvolanek @char74
Director of Experience Design
#rememberme
The Legacy Project asks:
what does legacy mean to you?
#LegacyMeans @LastingMarks
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