Abstract
Mobile technologies have the potential to enhance the lives of elderly users, especially those who experience a decline in cognitive abilities. However, diminutive devices often perplex the aged and many HCI problems exist. This paper discusses the development of a mobile intelligent multimodal storytelling companion for elderly users. The application, entitled MemoryLane, composes excerpts selected from a lifetime’s memories and conveys these past memories in a storytelling format. MemoryLane aims to possess the capability to produce bespoke stories that are both appropriate and pleasing to the user; this paper documents the proposed methodology and system design to accomplish this. As MemoryLane is expected to be deployed on a Personal Digital assistant (PDA), the preliminary field work to date investigating the usability of PDAs by elderly users is also discussed.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Unknown Host Publication |
| Editors | G-M Muntean, M Hofmann, B Nolan |
| Place of Publication | Blanchardstown, Dublin, Ireland |
| Publisher | Technological University Dublin |
| Pages | 72-82 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Publication status | Published (in print/issue) - Oct 2007 |
| Event | Proc. of the 7th Information Technology & Telecommunication Conference: Digital Convergence in a Knowledge Society (IT&T 2007) - Blanchardstown Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland Duration: 1 Oct 2007 → … |
Conference
| Conference | Proc. of the 7th Information Technology & Telecommunication Conference: Digital Convergence in a Knowledge Society (IT&T 2007) |
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| Period | 1/10/07 → … |