Memoryscape: Designing with senior citizens as memory meditation

Naveen L. Bagalkot, William Green, Peter Lutz

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Abstract

Supporting senior citizens with tools to recollect past experiences about everyday life is gaining ground within HCI research. In this paper, we focus on how seniors reminiscing can be a resource for designers to uncover the situated aspects. In particular, we argue that an analytical focus on seniors' memories is a fruitful stance for tracing how design practice situates issues of senior wellbeing. We employ the case of designing with senior citizens to design ICT for supporting adherence to physical therapy at home and discuss two retrospective examples. These examples highlight how seniors' physical wellbeing was situated in, memories of a musically rich and mobile life, and memories of youthful male body. Through retrospection, we offer the preliminary notion of memoryscape as a conceptual term for orienting how a design process can mediate seniors' memories as a way of accounting for situated elderliness in design.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHuman Factors in Computing and Informatics - First International Conference, SouthCHI 2013, Proceedings
Pages601-608
Number of pages8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Event1st International Conference on Human Factors in Computing and Informatics, SouthCHI 2013 - Maribor, Slovenia
Duration: 1 Jul 20133 Jul 2013

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7946 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference1st International Conference on Human Factors in Computing and Informatics, SouthCHI 2013
Country/TerritorySlovenia
CityMaribor
Period1/07/133/07/13

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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