Microsoft Research #01: The Future of Looking Back

Foreword; Introduction; Digital histories; The lens of a designer; Acknowledgments; Part I: Stuff and sentimentality; Chapter 1: Getting sentimental; 1.1 Keeping things safe; 1.2 Keeping things for ourselves; 1.3 Keeping things for an audience; 1.4 Keeping things for legacy; 1.5 A sense of obligation; 1.6 Sentiment, not archaeology; 1.7 Unexpectedly sentimental; 1.8 Family heirlooms; 1.9 A sentimental point of view; 1.10 Heirlooms with function; 1.11 Adding your own layer of sentiment; 1.12 Design challenges; Chapter 2: Attributes of the physical and the digital; 2.1 Whats good about the physical?; 2.2 Whats good about the digital?; 2.3 Design challenges; Chapter 3: Where the physical and the digital meet; 3.1 Bringing the physical and digital closer together; 3.2 A history of stories; 3.3 Exchanging state; 3.4 Design challenges; Part II: A digital life; Chapter 4: Our digital lifespan; 4.1 Infants; 4.2 Growing up; 4.3 Adults; 4.4 Seniors; 4.5 Design challenges; Chapter 5: A digital death; 5.1 A part of due process; 5.2 Nonmaterial legacies; 5.3 Grieving; 5.4 Honoring the dead; 5.5 A continuity of relationship; 5.6 Design challenges; Part III: New sentimental things; Chapter 6: Things and experiences; 6.1 Capturing places; 6.2 Capturing things; 6.3 Capturing people; 6.4 Design challenges; Chapter 7: Recording our lives; 7.1 Logging our lives; 7.2 Playing on the senses; 7.3 A spontaneous relationship to the past; 7.4 Design challenges; Chapter 8: The things we put online; 8.1 Things live all over the place; 8.2 Not places for life; 8.3 Changing notions of the public and private; 8.4 Looking forward; 8.5 Design challenges; Afterword; References; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 7; Chapter 8;