Title
Ticket to Talk: Supporting Conversation between Young People and People with Dementia through Digital Media.
Abstract
We explore the role of digital media in supporting intergenerational interactions between people with dementia and young people. Though meaningful social interaction is integral to quality of life in dementia, initiating conversation with a person with dementia can be challenging, especially for younger people who may lack knowledge of someone's life history. This can be further compounded without a nuanced understanding of the nature of dementia, along with an unfamiliarity in leading and maintaining conversation. We designed a mobile application - Ticket to Talk - to support intergenerational interactions by encouraging young people to collect media relevant to individuals with dementia to use in conversations with people with dementia. We evaluated Ticket to Talk through trials with two families, a care home, and groups of older people. We highlight difficulties in using technologies such as this as a conversational tool, the value of digital media in supporting intergenerational interactions, and the potential to positively shape people with dementia's agency in social settings.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3173574.3173949
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
Dementia, technology, intergenerational, communication, families, volunteers
Social relation,Internet privacy,Conversation,Computer science,Ticket,Digital media,Multimedia,Dementia
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-5620-6
1
0.35
References 
Authors
16
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daniel Welsh171.80
Kellie Morrissey2618.86
Sarah Foley331.73
Roisin McNaney411116.70
Christos Salis540.79
J McCarthy674572.26
John Vines760955.33