Opening up the Family strongArchivestrong - research.microsoft.com.pdfVIP

Opening up the Family Archive * David Kirk , Shahram Izadi, Abigail Sellen, Stuart Taylor, Richard Banks Otmar Hilliges Mixed Reality Lab*, University of Nottingham Microsoft Research Cambridge Nottingham, UK, NG8 1BB 7 JJ Thomson Ave., Cambridge, UK, CB3 0FB dsk@cs.nott.ac.uk {shahrami; asellen; stuart; rbanks}@ ABSTRACT deploy, in the home, new kinds of technologies, often The Family Archive device is an interactive multi-touch referred to as “probes” [e.g. 14]. Sometimes this is done for tabletop technology with integrated capture facility for the the purpose of bringing households into the design process archiving of sentimental artefacts and memorabilia. It was [17], but at other times it can be done „provocatively‟ [ 14]. developed as a technology probe to help us open up current Critics of this later approach [39] have commented that family archiving practices and to explore family archiving such research practices may be too alienating and in situ. We detail the deployment and study of three of these disruptive, undermining the crucial development of, and devices in family homes and discuss how deploying a new, understanding of, the domestication of technology. potentially disruptive, technology can foreground the social relations and organizing systems in domestic life. This in turn facilitates critical reflection on technology design. Author Keywords Home, domestic life, collaboration, archiving, int