Materialising Memories: Transforming personal remembering practices

Everyday remembering practices have transformed tremendously over the past decades, for example from flicking through a paper photo album not too long ago to scrolling folders full of digital photos on a mobile phone today [2]. Most of the tools and media to support remembering have digitised, which comes with advantages as well as disadvantages. Materialising Memories [3] is a research program which uses design research and qualitative research methods to study people when they use their autobiographical memory in everyday life to find innovative ways to support them [1]. One specific aim is to integrate the digital with the material. This keynote address will explain what that means in practice, it will cover topics such as memory cuing and personal memory media and it will present example studies of where this digital transformation of remembering practices might or should take us in the future.