TY - CONF T1 - Kurator: Using The Crowd to Help Families With Personal Curation Tasks T2 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing Y1 - 2017 A1 - Merritt, David A1 - Jones, Jasmine A1 - Ackerman, Mark S. A1 - Lasecki, Walter S. KW - crowdsourcing KW - curation KW - digital audio KW - digital curation KW - hybrid intelligence KW - mixed-expertise KW - personal curation AB -

People capture photos, audio recordings, video, and more on a daily basis, but organizing all these digital artifacts quickly becomes a daunting task. Automated solutions struggle to help us manage this data because they cannot understand its meaning. In this paper, we introduce Kurator, a hybrid intelligence system leveraging mixed-expertise crowds to help families curate their personal digital content. Kurator produces a refined set of content via a combination of automated systems able to scale to large data sets and human crowds able to understand the data. Our results with 5 families show that Kurator can reduce the amount of effort needed to find meaningful memories within a large collection. This work also suggests that crowdsourcing can be used effectively even in domains where personal preference is key to accurately solving the task.

JF - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing UR - Complete ER - TY - CONF T1 - Curating an Infinite Basement: Understanding How People Manage Collections of Sentimental Artifacts T2 - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Supporting Group Work Y1 - 2016 A1 - Jones, Jasmine A1 - Ackerman, Mark S. KW - collection management KW - curation KW - digital curation KW - digital memento KW - family memory KW - memorabilia KW - memory artifacts KW - pervasive computing KW - sentimental artifacts KW - ubicomp AB -

Valuable memories are increasingly captured and stored as digital artifacts. However, as people amass these digital mementos, their collections are rarely curated, due to the volume of content, the effort involved, and a general lack of motivation, which can result in important artifacts being obscured and forgotten in an accumulation of content over time. Our study aims to better understand the challenges and goals of people dealing with large collections, and to provide insight into how people select and pay attention to large collections of digital mementos. We conducted an interpretivist analysis of forum data from UnclutterNow.com, where participants discussed issues they face in curating the sentimental artifacts in their homes. We uncovered a number of social, temporal, and spatial affordances and concerns that influence the ways that people curate their memories, and discuss how curation is closely tied to how people use storage and display in their home. In our study, we drew out and unpack "curation regimes" as patterns that people enact to focus the attention they are able to pay to the artifacts in their collections. We close with a discussion of the design opportunities for memory artifacts, which support and facilitate the curatorial processes of users managing digital mementos in everyday life.

JF - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Supporting Group Work UR - Complete ER -