Title
Living Memory Home: Understanding Continuing Bond in the Digital Age through Backstage Grieving
Abstract
ABSTRACT Prolong Grief Disorder (PGD) is a condition in which mourners are stuck in the grief process for a prolonged period and continue to suffer from an intense, mal-adaptive level of grief. Despite the increased popularity of virtual mourning practices, and subsequently the emergence of HCI research in this area, there is little research looking into how continuing bonds maintained digitally promote or impede bereavement adjustment. Through a one-month diary study and in-depth interviews with 17 participants who recently lost their loved ones, we identified four broad mechanisms of how grievers engage in what we called ”backstage” grieving (as opposed to bereavement through digital public space like social media). We further discuss how this personal and private grieving is important in maintaining emotional well-being hence avoiding developing PGD, as well as possible design opportunities and challenges for future digital tools to support grieving.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1145/3411764.3445336
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
Prolonged Grief Disorder, Continuous Bonds, Digital Grieving, Thanatosensitive technology
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wan-Jou She100.68
Panote Siriaraya24215.50
Chee Siang Ang328130.47
Holly Gwen Prigerson400.68