Slots-Memento : A System Facilitating Intergenerational Story Sharing and Preservation of Family Mementos
Cun Li, Jun Hu, Bart Hengeveld, Caroline Hummels

TL;DR
Slots-Memento is a family-oriented system with a slot machine-like device and flash drive that facilitates sharing, storytelling, and preserving family mementos, especially engaging elderly users in the process.
Contribution
This paper introduces a novel system combining a physical device and digital storage to enhance intergenerational storytelling and preservation of family mementos.
Findings
Elderly users understood and accepted the system.
Photos of mementos effectively triggered memory recall.
The system increased elderly users' awareness and desire to share family stories.
Abstract
Family mementos document events shaping family life, telling a story within and between family members. The elderly collected some mementos for children, but never recorded stories related to those objects. In this paper, in order to understand the status quo of memento storytelling and sharing of elderly people, contextual inquiry was conducted, which further helped us to identify design opportunities and requirements. Resulting design was defined after brainstorm and user consultation, which was Slots- Memento, a system consisting a slot machine-like device used by the elderly and a flash drive used by the young. The Slots machine-like device utilizes with the metaphor of slots machine, which integrates functions of memento photo displaying, story recording, and preservation. In the flash disk, the young could copy memento photos to it. The system aims to facilitate memento story…
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Taxonomy
TopicsTechnology Use by Older Adults · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Persona Design and Applications
