Boriana Koleva

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Savouring Slow Gifts: Reflection from the Field Study of Hybrid Gifting

Despite the prevalence of digital gifting, designing meaningful and emotionally engaging digital gifts remains a challenge. One promising approach is Hybrid gifting, which combines digital and physical elements to improve the perceived value of gifts and provide opportunities for interpersonalisation. However, there i…

CHI '243rd AuthorInclusive Design +2

Insights Into Legacy: Issues of Handover from a Partner-Initiated Project

We report on a six-year collaboration with a small community organisation to develop and deploy a permanent physical / digital locative media experience as part on an ongoing community regeneration project. We describe how this unfolded over four phases: approach and pilot; public deployment; supporting subsequent com…

DIS '235th+ AuthorKnowledge Worker Tools & Workflows +2

“It’s not just for the Past but it’s for the Here and Now”: Gift-Giver Perspectives on the Memory Machine to Gift Digital Memories

We present the design of the Memory Machine (MeMa), a technology probe that can store, contextualise, and document media to represent memories. We accumulate vast physical and digital possessions throughout our lives, making it difficult to distinguish value in amassed images, albums, videos, mementos, and music. One…

DIS '232nd AuthorInteractive Narrative & Immersive Storytelling

Gifting the Past in the Present: An Exploration of Evoking Nostalgia through Hybrid Gifts

This study focuses on the hybrid gifting model, where both physical and digital objects combine to create a single gift. For this in-the-world study, we turn to nostalgic emotions. We aimed to uncover if hybrid gifting can facilitate nostalgic experiences through repurposed digital media. In this case, we used a physi…

CHI '181st AuthorMuseum & Cultural Heritage Digitization +1

Crafting Interactive Decoration

We explore the crafting of interactive decoration for everyday artefacts. This involves adorning them with decorative patterns that enhance their beauty while triggering digital interactions when scanned with cameras. These are realised using an existing augmented reality technique that embeds computer readable codes…

CHI '182nd Author360° Video & Panoramic Content +2

Customizing Hybrid Products

We explore how the convergence of the digital and physical into hybrid products leads to new possibilities for customization. We report on a technology probe, a hybrid advent calendar with both paper form and digital layers of content, both of which were designed to be customizable. We reveal how over two hundred acti…

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