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Digital Tools for Collecting, Organizing & Sharing Family History Team JERCC Jennifer Wang Advisor Tapan Parikh Elliot Nahman Ryan McAdam Carinne Johnson Curtis Hwang

Jennifer Wang Elliot Nahman Ryan McAdam Curtis Hwang Carinne Johnson

“People are hungry for stories . Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another.” —Studs Terkel

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Our Process Research Ideate Test Prototype

Research Approach Review of literature Interviews Academic and news media Subject matter experts Competitor Analysis Conversations Oral history projects & Our families location-based storytelling websites

Competitor Analysis

Interviews: Academics

Interviews: Radio Producers

Interviews: Industry

Facts & Findings Academic institutions lack resources to promote access and participation.

Facts & Findings Privacy in relation to digital media must be explicitly addressed.

Facts & Findings Technology can be used to augment the conversation but people should remain the focus.

Insights Ira Glass, Not everyone is a professional. Every interview situation is unique. Sharing stories is an intimate, revealing process.

Personas The Family The Aspiring The Educator Historian Storyteller

Visuals

Prototypes

Technologies

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How to use technology to: The Challenge ask better questions? • encourage better stories? •

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