Aremo, Simisola2024-08-212024-08-212024https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/44249Manual inventory and delegation of vast collections of heterogeneous digital media spread across multiple online and local storage is an overwhelming and cumbersome task for its owners and the eventual inheritors. This highlights the need for end-of-life digital legacy technology that supports sorting, selection, and curation of digital personal data while respecting an individual’s autonomy and values. Using a cultural probe method, this study aims to discover precisely what content digital media owners find valuable to preserve and how their loved ones might support the curation process. During a one-week immersive period, fifteen participants were presented with tasks designed to encourage open discussions about death, curate digital media for a chosen trusted beneficiary, and subsequently share their wishes with them. Early findings from the first round of coding reveal that although participants’ curated content such as sounds from nature and videos of a daughter’s first walk are individual and subjective, the motivations behind their decision making, such as a desire to comfort and connect with their beneficiaries even after their demise, is an emerging theme.enhttp://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/RestrictedAccessdata curationdigital legacydigital inheritancecultural probespeculative designText/Conference Paper10.18420/muc2024-mci-src-376