Stelling uit de thesis: Graspable Cues for everyday Recollecting

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De invloed van tastbare souvenirs op herinneringen

Liedjes, gedichten, foto’s, autobiografische boeken en geuren. Veel alledaagse dingen worden gebruikt om herinneringen op te halen. Veel mensen willen ook graag iets met hun herinneringen doen. Elise van den Hoven deed onderzoek naar herinneringen en promoveert vandaag, donderdag 6 mei, op haar proefschrift ‘Graspable Cues for Everyday Recollecting’ aan de faculteit Industrial Design. In haar proefschrift zijn aanbevelingen opgenomen voor ontwerpers waarmee een digitaal apparaat ontwikkeld kan worden dat je helpt bij het grasduinen door je herinneringen

Joint doctoral supervision across countries:changes, challenges and considerations.

Many universities international activities have increased enormously in volume, scope, and complexity in recent years (Altbach & Knight, 2007; Altbach, 2015) with education providers seeking more innovative ways to provide education across boundaries. Joint doctoral degrees are one example of such an initiative, focusing on international collaboration between institutions. Joint doctorates can provide richer and more rewarding learning experiences for PhD students, supervisors and colla- borating institutions. However, all the parties involved also need to be aware of the potential challenges and considerations that underpin effec- tive outcomes, as well as the key differences between joint degree docto- rates and doctorates with more traditional approaches. It has been pointed out that the literature on joint degree programmes is ‘thin’ pro- viding limited information for institutional leaders (and other parties involved in their setting up and conduct) who may be contemplating joint degree initiatives (Michael & Balraj, 2003). This chapter draws on a unique case study of a joint doctoral programme that operates across continents and academic cultures to illustrate the challenges and consid- erations that should be borne in mind prior to entering into joint doctoral arrangements. Various ways in which the associated challenges may be overcome are also suggested in order to support effective outcomes for all the parties involved

I wouldn't choose that key ring; it's not me : A Design Study of Cherished Possessions and the Self

We each possess certain objects that are dear to us for a variety of reasons. They can be sentimental to us, bring us delight through their use or empower us. Throughout our lives, we use these cherished possessions to reaffirm who we are, who we were and who we wish to become. To explore this, we conducted a design study that asked ten participants to consider their emotional attachment towards and the identity-relevance of cherished and newly introduced possessions. Participants were then asked to elaborate on their responses in interviews. Through a thematic analysis of these responses, we found that the emotional significance of possessions was reportedly influenced by both their relevance to selfhood and position within a life story. We use these findings to discuss how the design of new products and systems can promote emotional attachment by holding a multitude of emotionally significant meanings to their owners

The effect of cue media on recollections

External cognition concerns knowledge that is embedded in our everyday lives and environment. One type of knowledge is memories, recollections of events that occurred in the past. So how do we remember them? One way this can be done is through cuing and reconstructing. These cues can be internal, in our minds, or in our everyday environment. In this paper we look at memory cues in our environment by comparing the effect of cue modality (odor, physical artifact, photo, sound, and video) on the number of memory details people had from a unique one-day real-life event. Contrary to expectation, the no-cue condition (in effect, only a question asking the participants to write down their memories) created on average significantly more memory-details than the cued conditions

A qualitative exploration of memory cuing by personal items in the home

\u3cp\u3eWe are surrounded by personal items that can trigger memories, such as photos, souvenirs and heirlooms. Also during holidays, we collect items to remind us of the events, but not all bring back memories to the same extent. Therefore, we explored peoples’ responses to personal items related to a holiday, using the home tour interviewing method. In total, 63 accounts of cuing responses from nine home tours were analysed using thematic analysis. This resulted in four types of cuing responses: (a) ‘no-memory’ responses, (b) ‘know’ responses, (c) ‘memory evoked think or feel’ responses and (d) ‘remember’ responses. For each of these cuing response categories, we looked into the types of items and their characteristics. Furthermore, we found that some items can evoke multiple memories. The majority of the memories’ content refers to events close to the moment of acquiring the item.\u3c/p\u3

effMeet:peripheral interaction design for meeting management.

In an office environment, people tend to have full agendas with many meetings.\u3cbr/\u3eTherefore increasing time awareness,by knowing your personal and other people’s agendas in meetings, could be helpful.\u3cbr/\u3eWe want to achieve this through the use of peripheral interaction design, inspired by Weiser’s vision on CalmTechnology [12]. \u3cbr/\u3eThis paper presents the design process that led to effMeet, a peripheral interaction design that aims at increasing time awareness in meetings. \u3cbr/\u3eeffMeet subtly informs people of the remaining meeting time and communicates the users’ availability statuses to participants in other meetings by using their business cards as tokens. \u3cbr/\u3eThis paper contributes to research in the area of calm technology[12] and Ambient Information Systems [10] by proposing an innovative design which combines both peripheral perception and interaction