Analysis and convergence of studies on recommendations for digital memorials

Abstract

Digital memorial services are solutions surrounded by technical, legal and cultural aspects, which are sensitive and still in the process of exploration and consolidation. Different works on this theme have been produced in recent years, dealing with different contexts and solutions for these systems. There emerges, then, the need to converge the contributions of works on this theme. Thus, this research aims to systematize recommendations for the project of digital memories, considering Brazilian contexts and cultures. To this end, recommendations were extracted from different authors mapped out in a bibliographic survey of works in the area of Human-Computer Interaction in Brazil. In the systematization stage we proposed four categories for digital memorials. The recommendations were divided into macro themes, sometimes subdivided into micro themes, by means of an interpretive and associative analysis. As a result, a set of six macro themes is presented, with eleven micro themes, which totaled one hundred and forty-six useful recommendations to designers of digital memorials.