"PS. I Love You": Understanding the Impact of Posthumous Digital Messages
Managing Design for Life Disruptions
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Jamison-Powell, Sue
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Briggs, Pam
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Lawson, Shaun
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Linehan, Conor
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Windle, Karen
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Gross, Harriet
Proceedings of the ACM CHI'16 Conference on Human Factors in Computing
Systems
2016-05-07
v.1
p.2920-2932
© Copyright 2016 ACM
Summary: A number of digital platforms and services have recently emerged that allow
users to create posthumous forms of communication, effectively arranging for
the delivery of messages from "beyond the grave". Despite some evidence of
interest and popularity of these services, little is known about how posthumous
messages may impact the people who receive them. We present a qualitative study
that explores the type of experiences potentially triggered upon receiving such
messages. Our findings firstly suggest that posthumous messaging services have
the potential to alter the relationship between the bereaved and the deceased,
and secondly provide insight into how users make sense of this altered
relationship. Through the inference of a set of design considerations for
posthumous communication services, we reveal a number of conflicts that are not
easily solvable through technological means alone, and which may serve as
starting points for further research. Our work extends the growing body of
research that is concerned with digital interactions related to death and
dying.
Who am I? Representing the self offline and in different online contexts
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Emanuel, Lia
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Neil, Greg J.
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Bevan, Chris
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Fraser, Danaë Stanton
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Stevenage, Sarah V.
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Whitty, Monica T.
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Jamison-Powell, Sue
Computers in Human Behavior
2014-12
v.41
n.0
p.146-152
Keywords: Self-concept
Keywords: Self-presentation
Keywords: Offline and online disclosure
Keywords: Social network sites
© Copyright 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
Summary: The present paper examines the extent to which self-presentation may be
affected by the context in which is it undertaken. Individuals were asked to
complete the Twenty Statements Test both privately and publicly, but were given
an opportunity to withhold any of their personal information before it was made
public. Four contexts were examined: an offline context (face-to-face), an
un-contextualized general online context, or two specific online contexts
(dating or job-seeking). The results suggested that participants were willing
to disclose substantially less personal information online than offline.
Moreover, disclosure decreased as the online context became more specific, and
those in the job-seeking context disclosed the least amount of information.
Surprisingly, individual differences in personality did not predict disclosure
behavior. Instead, the results are set in the context of audience visibility
and social norms, and implications for self-presentation in digital contexts
are discussed.
Understanding in-situ social media use at music festivals
Posters
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Jamison-Powell, Sue
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Bennett, Lucy
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Mahoney, Jamie
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Lawson, Shaun
Companion Proceedings of ACM CSCW 2014 Conference on Computer-Supported
Cooperative Work and Social Computing
2014-02-15
v.2
p.177-180
© Copyright 2014 ACM
Summary: Participation at large music festivals is changing, with many attendees
using social media platforms to mediate and shape their experiences of
attending such events. We used a combination of Twitter and Foursquare to
collect social media posts from attendees at the Glastonbury 2013 music
festival and performed a thematic analysis in order to better understand the
in-situ use of such media. Our findings reflect the wide range of users'
purposes in such settings and provides a basis for further exploration of this
area.
Relationships between Password Choices, Perceptions of Risk and Security
Expertise
Human Factors in Security
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Creese, Sadie
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Hodges, Duncan
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Jamison-Powell, Sue
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Whitty, Monica
HAS 2013: 1st International Conference on Human Aspects of Information
Security, Privacy, and Trust
2013-07-21
p.80-89
© Copyright 2013 Springer-Verlag
Summary: 'Despite technological advances, humans remain the weakest link in Internet
security' [1], this weakness is typically characterised in one of two domains.
First, systems may not enable humans to interface securely, or the security
mechanisms themselves are unusable or difficult to use effectively. Second,
there may be something fundamental about the behaviour of some people which
leads them to become vulnerable.
This paper examines the links between perceptions of risk associated with
online tasks and password choice. We also explore the degrees to which the said
perceptions of risk differ according to whether the password user is a security
expert or not, and whether they have experienced some form of attack.
Validating a mobile phone application for the everyday, unobtrusive,
objective measurement of sleep
Papers: mobile applications
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Lawson, Shaun
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Jamison-Powell, Sue
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Garbett, Andrew
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Linehan, Conor
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Kucharczyk, Erica
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Verbaan, Sanne
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Rowland, Duncan A.
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Morgan, Kevin
Proceedings of ACM CHI 2013 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2013-04-27
v.1
p.2497-2506
© Copyright 2013 ACM
Summary: There is an identified need for objective, reliable, and scalable methods of
measuring and recording sleep. Such methods must be designed for easy
integration into people's lives in order to support both sleep therapy and
everyday personal informatics. This paper describes the design and evaluation
of a mobile phone application to record sleep, the design of which has
substantive foundation in clinical sleep research. Two user studies were
carried out which demonstrate that the application produces valid measurements
of sleep quality and high levels of usability, whilst not seriously disturbing
sleep or the sleep environment. These findings suggest that the app is suitable
for both everyday sleep monitoring in a personal informatics context, and for
integration into sleep interventions.
"I can't get no sleep": discussing #insomnia on Twitter
Understanding online communication
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Jamison-Powell, Sue
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Linehan, Conor
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Daley, Laura
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Garbett, Andrew
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Lawson, Shaun
Proceedings of ACM CHI 2012 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2012-05-05
v.1
p.1501-1510
© Copyright 2012 ACM
Summary: Emerging research has shown that social media services are being used as
tools to disclose a range of personal health information. To explore the role
of social media in the discussion of mental health issues, and with particular
reference to insomnia and sleep disorders, a corpus of 18,901 messages -- or
Tweets -- posted to the microblogging social media service Twitter were
analysed using a mixed methods approach. We present a content analysis which
revealed that Tweets that contained the word "insomnia" contained significantly
more negative health information than a random sample, strongly suggesting that
individuals were making disclosures about their sleep disorder. A subsequent
thematic analysis then revealed two themes: coping with insomnia, and
describing the experience of insomnia. We discuss these themes as well as the
implications of our research for those in the interaction design community
interested in integrating online social media systems in health interventions.
