History-Enriched Digital Objects

History-Enriched Digital Objects: thanks, peterme. “Consider some serendipitous uses of wear that everyday life presents. The bindings of cheap paperbacks bend and crack in a manner that allows one to find the last page read. The most often consulted pages of an auto parts store catalog are identifiable by smudges, familiar tears, and loose pages. The polished area of an otherwise painted brass door handle shows where others succeeded in grasping it.” Will Hill and Jim Hollan are studying ways we can record, protect, and decipher meaningful patterns of software use.