without requiring the digital photos to be printed. We have developed a social interface allowing people to effectively share, and tell stories about, recently taken, unsorted digital photographs around an interactive tabletop. In addition, leveraging the digital technology allows us to capture

Abstract This study evaluated the effectiveness of a three-week intervention in which a co-located cooperation enforcing interface, called StoryTable, was used to facilitate collaboration and positive social interaction for six children, aged 8-10 years, with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD

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and actions of other users. Furthermore, there is a lack of interoperability with other information systems that would enhance the world’s objects with semantically related content. In this paper we present a framework for extending virtual worlds with interactions and visualizations that support improved

which the mind/brain creates new knowledge. Then neuroscience findings are used to discuss social interaction, including environmental impacts on the creation and sharing of knowledge. Factors such as arousal and stress level, social attunement, holding environment, intersubjective space, level of trust

and their families share information, personal reminiscences and cultural stories, and occasionally interact with each other. Through its functionality, the electronic newspaper enables elders not only to maintain close social ties, but ameliorate cognitive decline. AUTHOR KEYWORDS Companionship, elderly, cognitive

that we propose to address with an agent-based communication system. This is a family newspaper through which seniors and their relatives not only maintain close social ties by sharing information, personal reminiscences and cultural stories, but enable them to exercise their minds through its

IT IS A GREAT PLEASURE for me to give this address at the International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences. The guiding theme of this meeting, “Connections: local and global aspects of Arctic social systems”, is clearly the inspiration for my title. I will start with a story. A few years ago I

Work in progress submitted to the Workshop: Enhancing interaction spaces by social media for the elderly to take place at ECSCW 2009, Vienna. Based in Helsinki (Finland) the Active Seniors Association has embarked on a collective project of organizing their future everyday life based on neighbourly

Due to the decrease in the birth rate and dramatically increase of the elderly in Taiwan, social participations as well as intergeneration interactions become the major approaches for elderly learning. Based on these concerns, the experimental project of “Toy Clinic Shop in primary school