A modern role for the village elders

Hofmeester, Kay; Dunne, Anthony; Gaver, William; Susani, Marco; Pacenti, Elena

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“…However times have changed and the oral tradition of reminiscing has faded into an occasional telling of stories that are heard on special occasions. HCI research in the area of reminiscing has investigated ways to trigger and elicit memories [4][5][6]. For example, Pensieve is a reminiscing system that prompts users with photos or status that they have previously posted to social networks [7].…”

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Scenario-based design of a digital reminiscing system for the elderly

Thiry

2012

Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work

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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 or been developed for an older healthy population. For my dissertation I have investigated when and how elderly individuals reminisce and am developing a prototype system that can enhance and maintain records of their reminiscing.

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Section: Motivationmentioning

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Scenario-based design of a digital reminiscing system for the elderly

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“…[29] Hofmeester et al [34] show how, by thinking of older people as active participants in society rather than as needy and dependent, innovative designs have been developed for systems that help elderly people remain vital part of the community. These elderlies, supported by appropriate technology, may use their memories, experience and time to take various valuable roles.…”

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Deep Design for Ambient Intelligence: Toward Acceptable Appliances for Higher Quality of Life of the Elderly

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2010

2010 Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Environments

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Reflective probes, primitive probes and playful triggers

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2007

Ethnographic Praxis

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INTRODUCTIONIn this paper I introduce three tools -Reflective Probes, Primitive Probes, and Playful Triggers. Building on notion of anomalous objects and odd experiences ( h i & Burrows 2006), these tools are derivatives of Cultural Probes (Gaver et a1 1999) that build off such work promoting multiple places for and uses of creative, inspirational and provocative artifacts in research and development endeavors. Cultural Probes, tools often including disposable cameras with instructions, maps, postcards, diaries, and stickers, were originally developed to address the methodological challenges posed by the study of home settings for the development of 'domestic technologies' (Hemmings et a1 2002). The mlturalpmbes appmach offers an "alternative to more traditional methods of user research from the social sciences, such as questionnaire studies, focus groups, or ethnographies" (Gaver et a1 accessed 2007). These tools offer a practical and creative way of learning more about people's everydayness in a context (home) where, due to privacy as well as time constraints, is not possible to conduct full participant observations. Initially developed as evocative tasks to elicit inspirational responses and to gain insights into people's needs, dreams, and ways of negotiating their surroundings through a designed-oriented approach, the Cultural Probes idea has since been deployed by many researchers and designers in different ways and diverse contexts (outside the home). probes as packets; as data collection; as participatory; as sensibility; and as citation. While I see benefits in this categorization, I here provide an alternative lens -combining an interpretation of HCI and non-HCI literature with lessons-learned through my design and research practice -that concentrates on the intended outcomes of probes adoption: what researchers want(ed) probes to enable. While Gaver et a1 (2004) state that probes were born to gather "fragmentary clues" about people's "lives and thoughts" -tools to (1) inspireothers argue that they can be used to (2) provide relevant information; (3) gather empathetic data; and (4) get data on usability issues and design. I overview these four categories in the following sections. Cultural Probes to generate inspirational dataThe Presence (Hofmeester 1999) and Equator (accessed 2004) projects belong to this cluster, where cultural probes were primarily employed in concert with other ethnographic methods to generate inspirational insights. Presence used probes to explore technologies with the aim of increasing "the presence of the elderly in their local communities" by including them in the design process (Gaver et a1 1999). Building on Presence, Equator used probes to investigate the "integration of the physical and digital worlds by developing innovative systems" (Gaver et a1 accessed 2007) to "enhance the quality of everyday life" (Equator Project, accessed 2004). Although Probes were designed similarly, the two projects had different foci: Presence aimed at generating new understandings of technolo...

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A modern role for the village elders

Cited by 7 publications

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Scenario-based design of a digital reminiscing system for the elderly

Scenario-based design of a digital reminiscing system for the elderly

Deep Design for Ambient Intelligence: Toward Acceptable Appliances for Higher Quality of Life of the Elderly

Reflective probes, primitive probes and playful triggers

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