Technology Mediated Social Support - Preserving Life Stories for the Seniors

Autor: Hung-Chi Lee, 李泓其
Rok vydání: 2017
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 105
Reminiscence is a volitional or non-volitional act or process of recollecting memories of oneself in the past, and it is a common and usual way of therapy for the seniors, especially for the patients with dementia or depression. Reminiscence therapy can effectively increase socialization, decrease depression and increase life satisfaction. Social interaction is also an important part of reminiscence for the seniors, including the conversation with their companion in individual reminiscence, and the interaction with their family members and friends in group reminiscence. Reminiscence activities need based on rich understanding for the seniors, so this study proposed three stages and technology applications to increase social support in the reminiscence processes and aim to preserve the life stories of the seniors: (1)Understanding - Picgo help to record the oral narratives and transcribe the recordings by the crowd-powered system, VoiceTranscriber. (2) Networking - PicMemory is a voice-based interactive album to collection the narration of the seniors shared in community activities. (3) Engaging - PicMemoryShare can share oral narrated photos to online family group and provide a chat-bot for them to retrieve photos. The main contribution of this study is presented a technology-mediated social support system to help the companion or families of the seniors can provide social support by maintaining a nature conversation, recording and summarizing the oral narratives with a friendly voice-based interface. In the future, we will focus on the part of preserving life stories and reorganizing the stories.
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