[ 3] This design direc- tion is suggested by recent work critiquing the dominant view of life logging. See Sellen, A. and Whittaker, S. “Beyond Total Capture: A Constructive Critique of Lifelogging.” Communications of the ACM 53, 5 (2010).

intended for them when navigat-
ing through expansive, idiosyn-
cratically structured archives.
In other instances, people spoke
of being in a state of paralysis,
ambivalent over how to approach
excavating hard-drive content
that was meaningful to them
and unsure of how their loved
one’s residual digital detritus
should be handled. In all cases,
participants felt a heavy obliga-
tion to deal with these digital
remains, remaining burdened
as they attempted to craft some
sense of meaning and resolution.