Chronoscope: A Near-eye Tangible Device for Interacting with Photos In and Across Time

With the massive proliferation of digital photos, new approaches are needed to enable people to engage with their vast photo archives over time and into the future. Our demo will feature Chronoscope - an interactive near-eye photo viewer ('scope') that uses temporal metadata embedded in digital photos as a design material to encourage curious and temporally diverse explorations of one's personal photo archive. Our demo will enable users to experience alternative ways of engaging with a large digital photo archive that emphasizes interactions through time and across time to encourage rich, open-ended experiences of curiosity, exploration, and self-reflection. This demo paper briefly introduces the motivation, rationale, and implementation of Chronoscope.