How to look at two-sided photos?: exploring novel perspectives on digital images

In recent years, HCI has been concerned with supporting memory processes through digital mementos. Still, relatively little work has been done on the design of interactive and mobile image viewers to support "reconstructing" meaningful memories. To explore novel perspectives on digital images, we provided eight participants with five different viewing tools and invited them to look at both conventional photos and at "duographs" (duography is a recent and experimental type of "two-sided" photography for capturing inspiring and meaningful pictures with mobile phones). Drawing on interviews and surveys, we found that participants were divided into two user groups during the interviews in the lab: "pragmatics" and "romantics". While the first group appreciated features supporting efficiency, the latter was interested in playful and explorative affordances. In this paper, we present our study and discuss preliminary findings.