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Type Conference or Workshop Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Published in Proceedings Yes
Title "This will cause a lot of work." – Coping with Transferring Files and Passwords as Part of a Personal Digital Legacy
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Authors
  • Joachim Pfister
Presentation Type paper
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published electronically before print/final form (Epub ahead of print)
Language
  • English
Event Title 20th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
Event Type conference
Event Location Portland, Oregon, United States
Event Start Date February 25 - 2017
Event End Date March 1 - 2017
Place of Publication Portland, Oregon, United States
Abstract Text We present a qualitative interview study of 39 participants who describe their current practices and concerns with shaping a digital legacy, especially when they are using cloud-based storage services that unify secure file storage and password management functionalities in one service (electronic data safes). After introducing the transactional model of stress and coping as an analytical lens, we report on the users’ coping strategies with respect to shaping and giving access to their digital legacy. Pre-mortem password sharing is identified as a common problem-focused coping strategy. Moreover, emotion-focused strategies of avoidance and ignorance are discussed. Challenges associated with passing on a digital legacy, such as the lack of enculturated practices, difficulties in the appraisal and selection of information items, the preference for deletion, and implicitly transferring data stewardship duties are described and discussed to develop design implications.
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Keywords Digital legacy; personal information management; electronic data safes; data inheritance; password management; cloud-based storage; thanatosensitive design