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Digital Photos in the Home

• 701.81 Study
• Paul Lapides
• October 22, 2008

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• Photography is mostly digital

This changes how people
Photograph
Share
Organize
Store
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Back in the day
1977

• Circa 1900

2003
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These days
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These days
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Photo-sharing Practices

• 10 participants, ages 20 30
• All computer literate
• Half used DSLR, half point-n-shoot
• Interviews in homes or University campus
• Two distinct practices of sharing

• Give and Take A Study of Consumer Photo-Sharing
  Culture and Practice
• Andrew D. Miller, W. Keith Edwards

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Taking Photos

• Take photos several times per year
• Goal was to share events

• Take photos twice a week
• Photo-strolls
• Goals were artistic or to improve their technique

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Sharing Photos

• Print out photos for collocated sharing
• Share with close circle of family or friends
• Use email

• Hardly ever print, use remote sharing
• Take photos for the intent of public sharing
• Use websites

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Flickr
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Blipfoto
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PicasaWeb
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Facebook
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Privacy

• Mother concerned
• about 4
• Privacy of subjects
• in 5
• Flickr has a public
• feel to it

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Organizating Photos

• Infrequent transfers,
• photos stay on camera
• No time for organizing
• Both use My Documents and Windows OS

• Transfer photos to computer right away
• Used tagging
• Both used chronology,
• year, month, day

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Photoware

• Remote sharing
• Multi-use album creation
• Audio annotations
• Conversation recordings

Requirements of Photoware David Frohlich, Allan
Kuchinsky, Celine Pering, Abbe Don, Steven Ariss
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Google Picasa

• Geared toward hobbyist
• Tagging, starring
• Non-destructive editing
• Seamless uploading and export
• Slideshows

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Adobe Lightroom

• Geared towards professional workflow
• More advanced editing
• More flexible tagging, organization

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• Photography is mostly digital

This changes how people
Photograph
Share
Organize
Store