Time-Turner: Designing for Reflection and Remembrance of Moments in the Home
summary
Time-Turner is an always-on video capture system paired with three interactive drink coasters that display month/day/hour activity and play year‑old clips; coasters slide magnetically to change date, default to exactly one year back, and switch camera feed by room. A lab study with 18 participants in 9 households shows families value seeing mundane, uncooked moments but worry about consent, strangers sliding coasters, exposing painful or evolving moral histories, and the burden of curation; participants find the coasters usable yet raise strong safeguarding and generational access questions.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:59The Message
- 1:36Related Work
- 2:02Research Goal
- 2:24Time-Turner
- 5:26Study
- 6:32Method
- 7:51Findings
- 9:18Technology in Domestic Artifacts
- 9:48Conversations around Death
- 10:32Evolving Self
- 11:09Evolving Roles & Relationships
- 11:27Passing Down the System
- 12:26Implications for HCI
- 12:39Designing for Everyday Capture
- 13:44Social Norms of Objects
- 14:53Designing to be passed On
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