My Narrative & Our stories-Design socially engaging experience for Narrative

My Narrative & Our stories-Design socially engaging experience for Narrative

Liu, J.

Sleeswijk Visser, F. (mentor)
Giaccardi, E. (mentor)

Industrial Design Engineering

Design for Interaction

Master of Science Design for Interaction

2014-11-28

“If you could relive a moment of your life, what would it be?” Beautiful moments are constantly happening in everyone’s life and the answer for this question can be different from person to person. Big life events such as wedding, graduation, the birth of your child, are certainly those memorable moments. But our life is also full of moments that are tiny and spontaneous, like having a brunch with your good friends, chatting with your family, that the beauty of them is often realized after it is gone. “What if we could capture every moment of our life?” With this idea in mind, the Narrative team developed a wearable life-logging camera that can log one’s life into a photographic E-memory. It is called the Narrative Clip. With the knowledge gained from a preliminary exploration of the context, the assignment was formulated as to create an engaging and inspiring experience of sharing life moments that is built on top of the Narrative Clip. Then a series of research activities were conducted and focused on both the Narrative user experience and general photography experience were carefully studied. “Sharing”, defined as a key interaction of social connection, was emphasized in both aforementioned research focuses. It is realized that users mostly prefer to use the Clip at special events in which family and friends (non-Narrative users) participate. The captured photos are often shared via two different ways, privately or publicly. Public sharing takes place mainly on social network platforms and is considered as self-expression to the public audience. Private sharing, on the other hand, targets at specific audience depending on the shared contents. Consequently, senders and recipients are closed connected to each other through such sharing behavior and thus creates the intimacy in between. This key insight set a clear direction of focusing on the shared experience between Narrative users and non-Narrative users and create dynamic interactions around the shared experience. As the project continued to the design phase, ideas were generated and four design concepts were proposed. Reflection and evaluation were carried out to keep polishing and elaborating the design concept. My Narrative & Our Stories, the final design, came into form. The design goal is to empower users to co-create an engaging reliving experience with their family and friends. Via a website crafted for this goal, Narrative users can effortlessly share stories with other non-Narrative users. Not only the shared contents are accessible for both groups, but also they can import photos from other devices to complete the stories. While browsing through the stories, they are encouraged and motivated to show their appreciation and add descriptive contents. All these collaborative efforts are used to present the story in a dynamic and engaging way. A subtle reminder is also created to motivate long-term usage. The final design was evaluated together both the Narrative users and non-Narrative users. The design received very positive feedbacks. The design achieves the design goal to create an engaging reliving experience between Narrative users, their family and friends. However, there is space for future development. Thus, some feedbacks were collected and recommendation were proposed.

Life-logging
social engagement
experience
Narrative

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Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2014 Liu, J.