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Serendipitous family stories: using findings from a study on family communication to share family history

Published: 26 September 2010 Publication History

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Storytelling and sharing family histories are important parts of what it means to "be" a family. Based on results from a study on intergenerational communication over a distance, we created the Serendipitous Family Stories system. The service allows family members to create visual and audio stories about places of importance in their lives and for their relatives to discover them serendipitously as they go about their lives. We will describe the motivation for the application and explain its functionality. Results from a field study are forthcoming.

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UbiComp '10 Adjunct: Proceedings of the 12th ACM international conference adjunct papers on Ubiquitous computing - Adjunct
September 2010
203 pages
ISBN:9781450302838
DOI:10.1145/1864431

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  1. communication
  2. family
  3. mobile video
  4. serendipity
  5. storytelling

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Ubicomp '10: The 2010 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
September 26 - 29, 2010
Copenhagen, Denmark

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