The art of deleting snapshots

Maria K. Wolters; Elaine  Niven; Robert H. Logie

doi:10.1145/2559206.2581287

The art of deleting snapshots

Maria K. Wolters (Lead / Corresponding author)
, Elaine Niven
, Robert H. Logie

Psychology

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Abstract

In this paper, we investigate why people decide to delete snapshots. 74 participants took snapshots of a street festival every three minutes for an hour and were then asked to cull pictures immediately or after a delay of a day, a week, or a month. We found that the ratio of kept to deleted pictures was fairly constant. Deletion criteria fell into six main categories that mostly involved subjective assessments such as whether a photo was sufficiently characteristic. We conclude that automatic tagging of photos for deletion is problematic; interfaces should instead make it easy for users to find and compare similar photos.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI EA '14
Subtitle of host publication	CHI'14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	2521-2526
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450324748
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2581287
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	32nd Annual ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada Duration: 26 Apr 2014 → 1 May 2014 http://chi2014.acm.org/

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Conference	32nd Annual ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Abbreviated title	CHI 2014
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Toronto
Period	26/04/14 → 1/05/14
Internet address	http://chi2014.acm.org/

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