TY - GEN
T1 - ChronoTape
T2 - 6th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction, TEI 2012
AU - Bennett, Peter
AU - Fraser, Mike
AU - Balaam, Madeline
PY - 2012/4/2
Y1 - 2012/4/2
N2 - An explosion in the availability of online records has led to surging interest in genealogy. In this paper we explore the present state of genealogical practice, with a particular focus on how the process of research is recorded and later accessed by other researchers. We then present our response, Chrono- Tape, a novel tangible interface for supporting family history research. The ChronoTape is an example of a temporal tangible interface, an interface designed to enable the tangible representation and control of time. We use the Chrono- Tape to interrogate the value relationships between physical and digital materials, personal and professional practices, and the ways that records are produced, maintained and ultimately inherited. In contrast to designs that support existing genealogical practice, ChronoTape captures and embeds traces of the researcher within the document of their own research, in three ways: (i) it ensures physical traces of digital research; (ii) it generates personal material around the use of impersonal genealogical data; (iii) it allows for graceful degradation of both its physical and digital components inorder to deliberately accommodate the passage of information into the future.
AB - An explosion in the availability of online records has led to surging interest in genealogy. In this paper we explore the present state of genealogical practice, with a particular focus on how the process of research is recorded and later accessed by other researchers. We then present our response, Chrono- Tape, a novel tangible interface for supporting family history research. The ChronoTape is an example of a temporal tangible interface, an interface designed to enable the tangible representation and control of time. We use the Chrono- Tape to interrogate the value relationships between physical and digital materials, personal and professional practices, and the ways that records are produced, maintained and ultimately inherited. In contrast to designs that support existing genealogical practice, ChronoTape captures and embeds traces of the researcher within the document of their own research, in three ways: (i) it ensures physical traces of digital research; (ii) it generates personal material around the use of impersonal genealogical data; (iii) it allows for graceful degradation of both its physical and digital components inorder to deliberately accommodate the passage of information into the future.
KW - Genealogy
KW - Inheritance
KW - Personalisation
KW - Temporal Tangible User Interfaces
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84859059273&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2148131.2148144
DO - 10.1145/2148131.2148144
M3 - Chapter in a published conference proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:84859059273
SN - 9781450311748
T3 - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction, TEI 2012
SP - 49
EP - 56
BT - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction, TEI 2012
Y2 - 19 February 2012 through 22 February 2012
ER -