Materialising Memories: Using design to support personal remembering

Personal remembering can be heavily influenced by external factors, such as people, locations and things. These things can be physical, digital or a combination of both, such as digital photographs displayed on a physical screen. Together these media and media carriers can act as memory cues, which in turn can be purposefully created for the support of remembering experiences. The aim of this presentation is to show the potential of this new multidisciplinary research area, combining design, psychology and technology, and which I refer to as Materialising Memories. I will illustrate my design research through the presentation of design case studies.