Family Memory Radio
Materialising the sound of holidays
Images are the prototypical memento but othe media could be more effective in bringing back the emotion of the past. We refurbished an old radio from the 70s to browse through and listen back to the sound of holidays.
(material representations of ourselves), digital mementos are stored within computers or
anonymous memory devices.
To explore how we can make our digital mementos more accessible we first conducted an
ethnographic study asking families to record their Summer holidays in audio. We then
designed a device to listen back to those audio mementos. In our design we took into
account the aesthetic of the home and how digital devices change it and how an intangible
media such as sound could be made more present and accessible.
The result is a radio from the 70s refurbished to embed bespoke digital technology. The
sounds are organised in “folders” represented by buttons.
Project dates
2019
2019
Publications
Petrelli, D., Whittaker, S., Brockmeier, J. (2008) Autotopography: What can Physical Mementos tell us about Digital Memories? Proc. of ACM CHI’08 International conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Florence, Italy, April 2008.
** This paper received the Honourable Mention**
Dib L., Petrelli D., Whittaker, S. (2010) Sonic Souvenirs: Exploring the Paradoxes of Recorded Sound for Family Remembering. Proc. of ACM CSCW 2010, International ACM conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
**This paper received the Honourable Mention**
Petrelli, D., Villar, N., Kalnikaite, V., Dib, L., Wittaker, S. (2010) FM Radio: Family Interplay with Sonic Mementos. Proc. of ACM CHI’10, International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Savannah, GE, USA
Research by
Daniela Petrelli
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