Open AccessTriggering memories with online maps
Author(s) -
Peesapati S. Tejaswi,
Schwanda Victoria,
Schultz Johnathon,
Cosley Dan
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
proceedings of the american society for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1550-8390
pISSN - 0044-7870
DOI - 10.1002/meet.14504701103
Subject(s) - popularity , variety (cybernetics) , focus (optics) , the internet , computer science , work (physics) , internet privacy , world wide web , data science , aesthetics , psychology , art , artificial intelligence , engineering , social psychology , mechanical engineering , physics , optics
The increasing popularity of applications that share location information over the internet enables the mapping of people's pictures and activities. Such applications often focus on the now , ignoring the importance of places and stories from the past. Inspired by recent work in HCI around reminiscing, in this paper we present a study in which 16 people used Google My Maps to write about their past, using place as a trigger for memories. People had a wide variety of strategies for choosing which places they remembered and the stories they told about those places; on balance they liked the idea of using maps as a tool for reminiscing, suggesting that this is a promising line of inquiry for further work.