What We Leave Behind - Creating and Evaluating an Application for Digital Data Curation to Empower a "Good Death"

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

• Build a high fidelity prototype
• Evaluate Prototype in study
• Write a thesis and present your findings in the Disputationsseminar
• (Optional:) co-write a research paper

Requirements

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