Reconstructing the Past: Personal Memory Technologies Are Not Just Personal and Not Just for Memory
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Research has shown that personal memory technologies are a promising way to address the needs of older adults with memory impairments. In this article, we review three recently completed studies that evaluated technologies for personal memories intended for persons with Alzheimer's disease (AD) or mild cognitive impairment (MCI). In the first study, we worked with 12 participants with AD or MCI and their families to construct DVD-based Multimedia Biographies that depicted prominent events, people, and places from the participant's past. We then evaluated over a period of 6 months psychosocial effects that viewing the biographies had on the participants and their family members. These effects included stimulating reminiscence of past events, triggering predominantly positive emotions of happiness and occasional moments of sadness, and engaging conversations with family members. In our second study, we designed a home-based ambient display that allowed a man with AD to similarly review his past life, in com...
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Reviewing old social media posts, photos stored on the smartphone, entries in one's smart journal, or quantified lifelogging data may support individuals in understanding their personal past and in creating a unique perspective that integrates thoughts and feelings about positive as well as negative life events.
“reviewing old social media posts, photos stored on the smartphone, entries in one's smart journal, or quantified lifelogging data may support individuals in understanding their personal past and in creating a unique perspective that integrates thoughts and feelings about positive as well as negative life events (Crete-Nishihata et al., 2012;Elsden, Durrant, et al., 2016;Elsden, Kirk, et al., 2016;”
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The Abstract reports that reviewing multimedia biographies and SenseCam images helped people with AD or MCI revisit their past, fostered a sense of self, and elicited mainly happiness with occasional sadness. It does not address social media posts, smartphone photos, smart journals, or quantified lifelogging data, nor does it establish the claimed integration of thoughts and feelings about positive and negative life events for individuals generally. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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- Authors
- Crete-Nishihata, M., Baecker, R. M., Massimi, M., Ptak, D., Campigotto, R., Kaufman, L. D., Brickman, A. M., Turner, G. R., Steinerman, J. R., & Black, S. E.
- Affiliations
- University of Toronto
- University of Toronto (CA)
- Columbia University (US)
- Sunnybrook Health Science Centre (CA)
- ProGevity Neuroscience
- Venue
- Human–Computer Interaction
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2012-04-05
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 1-2
- Pages
- 92-123
- ISSN
- 0737-0024 (ISSN-L)
- 1532-7051
- OpenAlex
- W2146830479
- Cited by
- 106
- References
- 4
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- FWCI
- 4.33
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Human-Computer Interaction (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Social Sciences › Demography › Technology Use by Older Adults
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Keywords
- Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment, reminiscence, family caregivers, ambient displays, psychosocial impact, emotion induction, family conversation
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