What Makes People Bond?: A Study on Social Interactions and Common Life Points on Facebook

Sanchiz, Emanuel; Ibarra, Francisco; Nikitina, Svetlana; Báez, Marcos; Casati, Fabio

doi:10.1109/cts.2016.0024

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“…This could explain why many participants felt they needed "more than the meal" to motivate attendance such as the opportunity to take part in activities and meet new people. Activities can also facilitate conversations and social interactions by giving people who have a shared interest in the activity something familiar to talk about, making them feel less self-conscious (Sanchiz, et al, 2016). Group activities involving structured discussions, health education, and physical activity have previously been shown to be effective at reducing loneliness amongst older people (Cattan et al, 2005).…”

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“You’ve Got to Be Old to Go There”: Psychosocial Barriers and Facilitators to Social Eating in Older Adults

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Background and Objectives Social eating is associated with a range of physical and mental health benefits for older adults. Previous research has identified some of the practical barriers that may limit social eating, such as cost and access to public transport. However, little is known about the psychosocial issues that can affect older adults’ engagement with social eating. This study examines psychosocial barriers and facilitators to attending community-based social eating opportunities for older adults. Design and Methods Forty-two older people aged between 59 and 89 years living in Manchester, UK, participated in semi-structured interviews or focus groups about their experiences and perceptions of social eating opportunities. Interview transcripts were analyzed using inductive thematic analyses. As there are known gender differences in relation to attitudes and behaviors relating to food and social activities, a framework analysis was applied to explore how these themes were differentially expressed by gender. Results Four themes were identified that related to the importance of (a) offering more than food; (b) participants’ social identity; (c) taking the first step; and (d) embarrassment and self-consciousness about physical health. Gender differences related to perceptions of the relevance and attractiveness of social eating, and the role of social support. Discussion and Implications This study improves our understanding of older adults’ social eating experiences and highlights clear strategies by which social eating opportunities could be made more attractive, accessible, and acceptable to older adults.

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“You’ve Got to Be Old to Go There”: Psychosocial Barriers and Facilitators to Social Eating in Older Adults

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“…Children's social engagement can foster friendships, which strengthens one's sense of belonging. 43 The playful engagements in the centres allowed children to build cross-cultural social connections, which allowed them to form social bonds. This strengthened the children's sense of belonging:…”

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Parent perceptions: How disparate early childhood care and education centres in South Africa foster belongingness and well-being in children

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Shaik

2023

TDSA

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This article explores parents’ perceptions of their children’s belongingness in early childhood care and education (ECCE) centres. It stems from the unexpected findings of a transformative ECCE pedagogy research project, which was characterised by multicultural, multiracial and varied economic conditions. As such, the authors expected controversial parental perceptions of the quality of the care and education their children experienced in these centres. However, this was not the case. Drawing on the theory of salutogenesis and its key concept, namely a sense of coherence, parents’ responses about their children’s early learning and well-being across diverse ECCE contexts were overwhelmingly positive. This prompted the question: what was it in these centres that allowed parents to experience a strong sense of belonging and such positive sentiments concerning their children’s sense of well-being? This phenomenological study was informed by the narratives of 19 parents, collected through the transformative pedagogy project, set in rural and urban situations, and at well-resourced and under-resourced centres. Findings reflected four identifiable themes. Firstly, parents favoured the diversity of influences at the centres, viewing these as rich opportunities for their children’s development and learning. Secondly, parents felt a strong conviction that the ECCE teachers were genuinely concerned about and sensitive towards their children. Thirdly, parents believed that their children were learning playfully in safe, loving spaces, and fourthly, parents were confident that their children were happy in the centres. These findings are particularly welcomed in the ECCE space, which is often demoralised and marginalised within the broader schooling system.Transdisciplinarity Contribution: The article shows that quality early childhood learning and teaching can take place across disparate contexts, be they urban or rural, well-resourced or under-resourced. This study identified factors that led to parents perceiving that their children experienced happiness and a sense of belonging in different centres.

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“…• Archiving life stories and memories, to support personal reflection, knowledge transfer or even virtual storytelling. • Building representations of the life of a person, not only to facilitate browsing, but to serve the growing need for historical information about older adults, e.g., to improve care practices [28], facilitate social interactions [4,25], and build better context and moderators to improve the reminiscence process. • Navigating interests and passions, as to engage users in conversations where they can have fun by navigating their passions (e.g., music, video, movies).…”

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“…As we will see, traditional reminiscence technology i) strongly relies on co-located human presence for assisting in the reminiscence process, engaging in conversations or joining social reminiscence sessions; this often requires dedicated personnel, the presence of family member and friends, which greatly limit the practice and potential benefits of reminiscence, especially for those with less access to social contacts; ii) do very little to actively guide reminiscence sessions in a way that is effective and engaging, requiring users (the participant or a guide) to recall important aspects of the participant's life, to rely only on intentional triggers, or to follow predefined templates; thus missing the opportunity to reflect interests and previous stories to make sessions more fun and satisfying, and iii) memory collection and digital storytelling is mostly limited to archiving and browsing, missing the potential benefits of building a rich profile of users, e.g., to improve care practices [28] or facilitate social interactions [4,25], for example by identifying people with common values, or simply by making one's own family, and especially grandchildren, aware of the rich and often interesting life their grandparents have lived and are living.…”

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Smart conversational agents for reminiscence

Nikitina

Callaioli

Báez

2018

Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Software Engineering for Cognitive Services

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In this paper we describe the requirements and early system design for a smart conversational agent that can assist older adults in the reminiscence process. The practice of reminiscence has well documented benefits for the mental, social and emotional well-being of older adults. However, the technology support, valuable in many different ways, is still limited in terms of need of co-located human presence, data collection capabilities, and ability to support sustained engagement, thus missing key opportunities to improve care practices, facilitate social interactions, and bring the reminiscence practice closer to those with less opportunities to engage in co-located sessions with a (trained) companion. We discuss conversational agents and cognitive services as the platform for building the next generation of reminiscence applications, and introduce the concept application of a smart reminiscence agent.

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What Makes People Bond?: A Study on Social Interactions and Common Life Points on Facebook

Cited by 5 publications

References 24 publications

“You’ve Got to Be Old to Go There”: Psychosocial Barriers and Facilitators to Social Eating in Older Adults

“You’ve Got to Be Old to Go There”: Psychosocial Barriers and Facilitators to Social Eating in Older Adults

Parent perceptions: How disparate early childhood care and education centres in South Africa foster belongingness and well-being in children

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