As the volume of online interactions and digital assets grows, so does the challenge of addressing what happens to these data after a user’s death—that is, the user’s digital legacy. Based on an initial analysis of the limitations found in literature reviews on digital legacy within the field of Human-Computer Interaction, we formulated the following research questions: What researcher cluster formations could facilitate the identification of predominant sub-themes in the area of interactive technologies related to digital legacy? What regularities can be identified through the terminologies emerging from different researcher clusters? In search of these answers, the general objective of this study was defined as mapping predominant sub-themes and the terminology of published studies through the analysis of researcher clusters that, at some point, co-published within the collected sample, whether on digital legacy or other topics. We carried out a Scoping Review using the PRISMA-ScR (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews) method. The analyses involved a preparatory stage for identifying key concepts, followed by the use of clustering techniques based on co-authorship to identify connections between authors and terminologies used in the field. Two emerging categories are explored in this paper. The first, timeline, indicates that empirical studies are situated at specific moments in relation to a user’s life (or death). The second category concerns the use of terms that appear to be fundamental to the field: legacy and digital legacy.

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Who We Are and What We Mean: a Scoping Review of Concepts and Terminology on Digital Legacy

  • Cristiano Maciel,
  • Vinícius Carvalho Pereira,
  • Francisco Wesley Gomes Bezerra,
  • Tânia Saraiva de Melo Pinheiro

摘要

As the volume of online interactions and digital assets grows, so does the challenge of addressing what happens to these data after a user’s death—that is, the user’s digital legacy. Based on an initial analysis of the limitations found in literature reviews on digital legacy within the field of Human-Computer Interaction, we formulated the following research questions: What researcher cluster formations could facilitate the identification of predominant sub-themes in the area of interactive technologies related to digital legacy? What regularities can be identified through the terminologies emerging from different researcher clusters? In search of these answers, the general objective of this study was defined as mapping predominant sub-themes and the terminology of published studies through the analysis of researcher clusters that, at some point, co-published within the collected sample, whether on digital legacy or other topics. We carried out a Scoping Review using the PRISMA-ScR (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews) method. The analyses involved a preparatory stage for identifying key concepts, followed by the use of clustering techniques based on co-authorship to identify connections between authors and terminologies used in the field. Two emerging categories are explored in this paper. The first, timeline, indicates that empirical studies are situated at specific moments in relation to a user’s life (or death). The second category concerns the use of terms that appear to be fundamental to the field: legacy and digital legacy.