An update for the final presentation. With a new name -- Memory snippets. Thanks and enjoy!

1. MEMORY SNIPPETS
An interactive installation for memory storage
Shan Liu
Hybrid: Nano Bio Art
Spring 2011

2. >> concept development
DESIGN STATEMENT:
Storing memories in format of snippets of sound, the nightstand recalls
and reconstructs the memories through user interactions. Playing with
the drawers triggers memories, and manipulates the mind to compose
them into new ones.
Media: sound, visual probes
Goal: To give visitor a surrealistic, sensorial experience.

3. DESIGN OUTCOME
physical prototype
pics of nightstand

4. AESTHETIC PRECEDENT
surrealistic
dreamy paintings by Dali

5. CONCEPT PRECEDENT
morphing + transforming
“Selective Memory Theatre” by Matthias Dörfelt

6. RESEARCH
memory organization
Autobiographical Memory Base Memory probes
by Conway and Pleydell-Pearce (2000) They are used as cues for specific memories.
Types of memory probes: verbal, visual, audio, odor, textile.
Lifetime Periods
General Events
Emotions
Emotion greatly affects the way autobiographical memories
are encoded and how people retrieve those memories.
Positive Negative
Event-specific Knowledge

7. RESEARCH WIN A GAME
an example associatations & triggers
>> memory of memory association LOVE
BE HIRED
DESIRE
BREAKING-UP
FEAR
LOSING PRECIOUS ITEMS
FINANCIAL CRISIS FALLING
DIE FROM CAR ACCIDENT
LOSING CONTACT WITH TENNIA HOME GET BROKEN INTO
HORROR

8. CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT
memory inter-relationships
Watching Tom & Jerry Technology, Family,
on TV at home Entertainment
Family, Technology,
Talking with mom on
Relationship
Skype
Technology, School
Alarm going off

9. PROTOTYPE
interaction illustration

10. PROTOTYPE
interaction illustration

11. FUTURE PLAN
The next step of Memory Snippets will be building a
“collective memory storage”. Using audio and visu-
al data from YouTube and other community-based web-
sites, the installation will become a portal to a memory
in a larger sense - a societal one.

12. REFERENCES
Dream Images and Symbols, by Keven J. Todeschi
I Dad the Strangest Dream... The Dreamer’s Dictionary for the 21st Century, by Kelly Sulliavan Walden
“Selective Memory Theatre”, by Matthias Dörfelt
Concept “Autobiographical memory”, wikipedia
Movie “estino!” by Salvador Dali
Music“‘Simplify this Landscape with Darkness”, by Andrea Giacomini