Printed digital storytelling for older audiences
D. M. Frohlich, L. Ferraz, P. Castro
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AbstractDigital storytelling is a method of short personal film making that originated as a form of community empowerment (Lambert 2013). It has many applications ranging from international development, education, social media and health. At present, stories of this kind are video files hosted on a website and consumed passively. This makes them difficult to find and browse, especially for non-technical users. Imagine instead if they could be printed like patient information leaflets, with associated audio or video that plays on a nearby smartphone. Then they could be distributed physically and consumed interactively through a smartphone app that is triggered by the paper itself. This possibility is supported by the Next Generation Paper platform developed at the University of Surrey (Frohlich et al 2019). Here we report a design exploration showing the feasibility and feel of this idea for a corpus of digital stories from a previous study of dementia care. Research insights are generated through design practice itself, ahead of user feedback, although we realise this is unconventional in gerontechnology (Zimmerman et al 2007).Keywords: digital storytelling, health, next generation paper, augmented paper, photobook, patient information leaflets
D. M. Frohlich, L. Ferraz, P. Castro (2022). Printed digital storytelling for older audiences. Gerontechnology, 21(s),1-1
https://doi.org/10.4017/gt.2022.21.s.696.opp4