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PS - I love you: Communication with the dead based on digital Data

BA/MA

Status open
Advisor Henrike Weingärtner, Linda Hirsch
Professor Prof. Dr. Albrecht Schmidt

Task

Problem Statement

What happens after death with your social media? "Death is often regarded as a special and personal process" while social media is "impersonal and trivializing". "Not knowing the extent of one's data hinders the process of hiding data deemed incongruent with self-representation."

Tasks

  • Perform a literature review
  • Conduct Online survey about data produced by a person / Develop Scenarios
  • Conduct online survey about the perceived appropriate handling of data depending on the relationship with the deceased person and the temporal distance
  • (Build a low fidelity prototype)
  • Write a thesis and present your findings in the Disputationsseminar
  • (Optional:) co-write a research paper

Requirements

  • Basic knowledge of user research
  • Willingness to dive into social media Scraping/Crawling

References

  • From Personal Data to Digital Legacy: Exploring Conflicts in the Sharing, Security and Privacy of Post-mortem Data
  • I said your name in an empty room: grieving and continuing bonds on facebook
  • What Happens After Death? Using a Design Workbook to Understand User Expectations for Preparing their Data

Keywords

hci, Social content sharing
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