Towards Designing for Multimodal Remembering: Findings from an Interview Study
Ege Otenen · 2024
Humans experience, remember, and express the world through their senses. These different modalities are also essential in forming and recalling autobiographical memories. People remember the color of the shirt they wore, the voice of their partner, and the taste of their mother’s soup. They also express their memories with different modalities by telling it with their words or showing pictures. Although a rising number of studies focused on developing technologies to support remembering, studies have yet to take the opportunity to explore the role of modalities to aid memories. We interviewed 12 participants about their memories by allowing them to remember and express memories with different modalities to understand better how to design for multimodal remembering. This paper is a first step toward developing a framework that aims to explore multimodal remembering, improve design practices by providing insights for future memory technologies.