Investigating slowness as a frame to design longer-term experiences with personal data: a field study of olly

William Odom; Ron Wakkary; Jeroen Hol; Bram Naus; Pepijn Verburg; Tal Amram; Amy Yo Sue Chen

doi:10.1145/3290605.3300264

Investigating slowness as a frame to design longer-term experiences with personal data: a field study of olly

William Odom, Ron Wakkary, Jeroen Hol, Bram Naus, Pepijn Verburg, Tal Amram, Amy Yo Sue Chen

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We describe the design and deployment of Olly, a domestic music player that enables people to re-experience digital music they listened to in the past. Olly uses its owner’s Last.FM listening history metadata archive to occasionally select a song from their past, but offers no user control over what is selected or when. We deployed Olly in 3 homes for 15 months to explore how its slow pace might support experiences of reflection and reminiscence. Findings revealed that Olly became highly integrated in participants lives with sustained engagement over time. They drew on Olly to reflect on past life experiences and reactions indicated an increase in perceived value of their Last.FM archive. Olly also provoked reflections on the temporalities of personal data and technology. Findings are interpreted to present opportunities for future HCI research and practice.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-5970-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300264
Publication status	Published - 2 May 2019
Event	37th ACM Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2019 - Scottish Event Campus, Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: 4 May 2019 → 9 May 2019 Conference number: 37 https://chi2019.acm.org

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Conference	37th ACM Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2019
Abbreviated title	CHI 2019
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Glasgow
Period	4/05/19 → 9/05/19
Internet address	https://chi2019.acm.org

Keywords

Digital music
Home
Personal data
Research through design
Slow technology
Temporality

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Odom, W., Wakkary, R., Hol, J., Naus, B., Verburg, P., Amram, T., & Yo Sue Chen, A. (2019). Investigating slowness as a frame to design longer-term experiences with personal data: a field study of olly. In CHI 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article 34 Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300264

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Investigating slowness as a frame to design longer-term experiences with personal data: a field study of olly. / Odom, William; Wakkary, Ron; Hol, Jeroen et al.
CHI 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2019. 34.

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