Supporting intergenerational memento storytelling for older adults through a tangible display: a case study

Abstract

Mementoes act as emotional companions that anchor stories. Older adults typically have a rich knowledge of family mementoes. However, storytelling and preservation of mementoes are still problematic for them: their mementoes are still mostly in physical format, which is difficult to share and preserve. Additionally, digital applications and websites for sharing mementoes usually are inaccessible for them. As a result, they spend much time collecting mementoes, but spend less time on telling and recording the related stories. In response to this, we report our study driven by the research questions: Rq1: What are the characteristics of older adults' intergenerational memento storytelling? And Rq2: In which ways could a tangible display facilitate intergenerational memento storytelling for older adults? We designed a tangible device named Slots-Memento. We first conducted a preliminary evaluation to refine the prototype. In the field study, eight pairs of participants (each pair consisting of an older adult and his/her child) were recruited to use the prototype for around 1 week. Semi-structured interviews were then conducted both with the older adults and their children. Subsequently, mementoes collected were categorized and analyzed. Stories collected were firstly transcribed, then were conducted with structural and interactional analysis. In the concluding discussion, we present abstract implications for the research questions: two tables summarizing characteristics of their intergenerational memento storytelling, and related strategies of designing a tangible display individually.

Special issue on pervasive displays

“…Li et al [4] introduce the design and implementation of a tangible device, Slots-Memento, that supports intergenerational memento storytelling for older adults. The authors argue that memento sharing is a cooperation process that should involve both the storytellers and listeners.…”

“…This special issue revealed that there are yet some challenges that need to be addressed for pervasive displays and proposed solutions. This includes technical challenges, such as content scheduling [13], as well as human-centered design challenges, such as attracting attention [2], social acceptability [10], workload [8], and designing for different user groups [4,6]. Authors of articles in this special issue have shown that these areas require further research, and have also highlighted multiple opportunities which we divide in terms of use cases and methodologies: Novel use cases: There is a myriad of use cases for which pervasive displays can be particularly promising.…”

“…Authors of articles in this special issue have shown that these areas require further research, and have also highlighted multiple opportunities which we divide in terms of use cases and methodologies: Novel use cases: There is a myriad of use cases for which pervasive displays can be particularly promising. Rubegni et al [6] and Li et al [4] developed pervasive display applications that address challenges experienced by children and older adults respectively. A number of novel applications for pervasive displays were proposed, including creating virtual partitions between workers in open workspaces [3], place-based communication [5], crowdsourcing [7], and even large floor displays for automotive manufacturing [9].…”

Promoting Older Residents’ Social Interaction and Wellbeing: A Design Perspective

“…Figure 7 unfolds the quantity proportions of trigger questions chosen by the young. For the mementos, the categorization followed our previous research [35], we classified them into three types, and from high to low they were a photo, object, and paper document. The photo was divided into family member, activity, friend, marriage, object, et cetera., depending on their themes.…”

Παράγοντες Που Σχετίζονται Με Την Αποδοχή Και Χρήση Τεχνολογιών Από Μεγαλύτερους Σε Ηλικία Ενήλικες

“…Επίσης, το άκουσμα της φωνής ενός προσώπου μπορεί να ενδυναμώσει στον ακροατή την οπτική και συναισθηματική αναδόμηση του χρόνου, του χώρου και των ευρύτερων στοιχείων μιας ανάμνησης (Oleksik & Brown, 2008). Η αξία των προαναφερθέντων ιδιοτήτων είχε ως αποτέλεσμα τη δημιουργία διαφόρων τεχνολογικών καινοτομιών που βασίζονται στον ήχο, όπως είναι η Memory Tree (Jayaratne, 2016), η FM Radio (Petrelli et al, 2010), η EatWell (Grimes et al, 2008), η Slots-Memento (Li et al, 2020), η Kurios (Tolentino & Mosher, 2020) κ.ά. Ωστόσο, σε συγκεκριμένες περιπτώσεις, οι ηχογραφήσεις χαρακτηρίζονται από ορισμένα μειονεκτήματα.…”