The Memory Tree

Exploring the Design of Generative AI in Supporting Music-based Reminiscence for Older Adults

“…Moreover, Axtell and Munteanu developed PhotoFlow [2] to support older adults and their families in engaging in reminiscence activities (e.g., sharing of family memory) using their family photographs and utilizing their speech data to organize photos automatically. In addition to employing visual cues such as text and photos to trigger memories, sensory stimuli such as sound and music have also been used to facilitate the reminiscing process [20,37,42,72]. Jayaratne explored the use of sound (e.g., audio recording) as a tool to support people's reminiscing about their loved ones [42].…”

“…In addition to employing visual cues such as text and photos to trigger memories, sensory stimuli such as sound and music have also been used to facilitate the reminiscing process [20,37,42,72]. Jayaratne explored the use of sound (e.g., audio recording) as a tool to support people's reminiscing about their loved ones [42]. Odom et al designed a music player aimed at supporting people's experience of reflection and reminiscence by enabling them to re-experience the music they enjoyed in the past [60].…”

“…In recent decades, HCI researchers have investigated the use of technology for supporting reminiscence [14,45,64,81,91], and different types of technology-based tools have been designed to enable people to re-experience their personal digital data like social media content [63], emails [32], photos [2,20,64], sound [37,42] and music [72], to trigger their memories. Moreover, several researchers have proposed AI-driven solutions like chatbots that aim to offer human-like and personalized interactions [15,28,58], for realizing the potential of AI technologies to aid the reminiscing process.…”