Intimate media

Intimate media includes such things as personal and family photo collections, home videos and films, diaries and journals, and letters.

[1] Great value is placed on intimate media possessions due to its ability to serve as "proof" that an event or memory actually occurred.

"[3] In their chapter of The New Everyday: Views on Ambient Intelligence, entitled Intimate Media: Emotional Needs and Ambient Intelligence, John Cass, Lorna Goulden, and Slava Kozlov discuss the ways in which humans, as they "become familiar with the potential of new technologies in their workplaces...find ways to re-use what they have encountered there and find benefits in other parts of their lives.

[5] Storing intimate media on a computer mechanism helps to preserve the accuracy of the memory and lengthens its life as well.

The decorative nature of non-technological intimate media allows a person to imbue their living space with memories, triggers of happy moments, sentimental objects, and the like.