Enabling Storytelling by Aphasics in an Augmented Home Environment

Abstract

We present the design of a system for Aphasics that assist them in storytelling. Storytelling, in the sense of being able to relate recent and past experiences to relevant others, is considered to be crucial for the quality of life and psychological wellbeing of most people. The storytelling support system that we propose is primarily intended to be used by Aphasics in their postrehabilitation period. Our focus is on the creation of daily stories with the help of passively captured materials, hence emphasizing the need for fairly effortless interaction from the side of the end user. End-user requirements gathering was especially difficult in this project, because of the verbal limitations in our user group. Many requirements for the system were hence decided through consulting proxies of the Aphasics, such as their caregivers. The preliminary feedbacks on our design provide interesting insights for the design of a more complete storytelling system for Aphasics. We also discuss some interesting challenges from a technological and methodological point of view that arose in the course of the design.

Contributors

Abdullah Al Mahmud

Dzmitry Aliakseyeu

Jean-Bernard Martens

Conference

Publication date: September 2008

Publication date (Print): September 2008

Pages: 3-6

Affiliations

Dept. Of Industrial Design

Eindhoven University of Technology

Den Dolech 2, 5600 MB, Eindhoven

The Netherlands

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User Experiences Group

Philips Research Europe

HTC 34, 5656AE, Eindhoven

The Netherlands

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Article

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2008.20

Copyright statement: © Abdullah Al Mahmud et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. People and Computers XXII Culture, Creativity, Interaction

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Conference name: People and Computers XXII Culture, Creativity, Interaction

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 22

Conference location: Conference Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

Conference date: 1 - 5 September 2008

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Computers XXII Culture, Creativity, Interaction

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Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing