Mediated Memory
Meaningful, Contextual, Media: A Three-Axis Design Space for Personal Memory from Co-Design to Probing
We present Meaningful, Contextual, Media, a three-axis design space for personal memory that treats memory media materials as design resources.
Co-Design Study
A co-design study paired a cross-media outing with a structured workshop. Fifteen participants selected five media materials from a shared toolkit, recorded memory nodes during a half-day outing, and then linked their artifacts to sensitizing points through route timelines and mapping sheets.
Meaningful, Contextual, Media
We applied thematic analysis to distill media signatures and organized them into the Meaningful, Contextual, and Media axes. The resulting design space makes different forms of personal memory media comparable without reducing them to a single technology or format.
Artifacts as Probes
Full-color transparent 3D printed memory tokens reposition and enlarge a distinctive region of the design space. Used as probes, they surfaced design moves around curation, disclosure, and fabrication friction that can strengthen memory experiences.
