Digital possessions in the Museum of Broken Relationships

Daniel Herron; Wendy Moncur; Marija Curić; Dražen Grubišić; Olinka Vištica; Elise van den Hoven

doi:10.1145/3170427.3186547

Digital possessions in the Museum of Broken Relationships

Daniel Herron, Wendy Moncur, Marija Curić, Dražen Grubišić, Olinka Vištica, Elise van den Hoven

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Abstract

This paper describes an interactive demo of our collaborative research activity with the Museum of Broken Relationships, one of Lonely Planet’s’Fifty Museums to Blow Your Mind’. In collaboration with the Museum, we are currently collecting data worldwide and cross-culturally on the digital possessions individuals associate with their romantic break up, combined with the stories behind those possessions. Taking a methodologically innovative approach, we adapt the Museum’s existing practices to conduct research (triangulating existing small-scale interview data) whilst simultaneously generating a new collection for the Museum. In doing so, we foreground contemporary HCI questions of ownership, curation, and presentation of self after a romantic breakup to the public. The demo will exhibit the digital possessions and associated stories that we collect, whilst also giving the CHI community the opportunity to contribute to the collection in real-time at the conference, by sharing digital possessions and stories of their own romantic breakups.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subtitle of host publication	engage with CHI
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450356213
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3186547
Publication status	Published - 20 Apr 2018
Event	2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018 - Montreal, Canada, Montreal, Canada Duration: 21 Apr 2018 → 26 Apr 2018 Conference number: 36 http://chi2018.acm.org

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Conference	2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018
Abbreviated title	CHI 2018
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	21/04/18 → 26/04/18
Internet address	http://chi2018.acm.org

Funding

We are grateful to all Digital Separations Collection contributors. Thanks also to Zhen Ge for the illustrations in Figures 4 and 5 in this paper. Herron’s PhD research is supported by an EPSRC DTP.

Keywords

Break up
Collaboration
Collection
Curation
Digital possessions
Exhibition
Grammars of action
Methodology
Museum
Relationship
Separation

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Herron, D, Moncur, W, Curić, M, Grubišić, D, Vištica, O & van den Hoven, E 2018, Digital possessions in the Museum of Broken Relationships. in CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: engage with CHI., D203, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018, Montreal, Canada, 21/04/18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3186547

Digital possessions in the Museum of Broken Relationships. / Herron, Daniel; Moncur, Wendy; Curić, Marija et al.
CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: engage with CHI. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2018. D203.

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