Designing for Long-term Digital Data Management

Abstract

Digital data is a pervasive component of modern society, with people managing a growing number of data types across many devices. My research explores people's choices on what to keep over the long-term and aims to design personalized data management tools. In a first study, I characterized individual differences in data preservation behaviors. I plan to use interviews, a survey, and probing methods to further extend this characterization and define a design space for long-term data management. Then, I plan to build and evaluate a prototype that synthesizes findings from all my studies.