Designing a digital reminiscing system for older adults

  • Authors:
  • Elizabeth Thiry

  • Affiliations:
  • Pennsylvania State University

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

There has recently been interest within the HCI community concerning both current practices and digital tools for reminiscing. Several systems have been developed to trigger and/or capture reminiscence content; however very little is known about the overall process of reminiscing and few design efforts have been directed to the needs of the elderly. For my dissertation I have investigated when and how older individuals reminisce and am currently designing and evaluating prototype systems that can enhance and maintain records of their reminiscing.