183 DEVELOPING AND FACILITATING ONLINE INTERGENERATIONAL CAFÉS

Intergenerational Coresidence in Developing Countries.

We use newly-available census microdata from IPUMS-International to assess trends in intergenerational coresidence in 15 developing countries. Contrary to expectations, we find no general decline in intergenerational coresidence over the past several decades. There have been, however, significant changes in the configuration of intergenerational coresidence. Families in which the older generati...

Online Kidsteam: Developing an Environment for Geographically Distributed, Intergenerational Participatory Design

As more children’s technologies are designed to be used with a global audience, new tools need to be created to include more children’s voices in the design process. However, working with those children who are geographically distributed as design partners is difficult because existing technologies either do not support distributed design, or are not child-friendly. In this paper, we describe t...

Facilitating Forgiveness: Developing Group and Community Interventions

Death Cafés: Death Doulas and Family Communication

The Death Café is part of the Death Positive movement, and as such, is uniquely positioned to bring the dialogue about death and dying to the public. Participants in a Death Café typically have two different perspectives. Some participants have not experienced death in their family and friends' circle and wish to converse with others about their beliefs on death and dying. Others are those who ...

Facilitating online discussions by automatic summarization

In the DISCOSUMO project, we aim to develop a computational toolkit to automatically summarize discussion forum threads. In this paper, we present the initial design of the toolkit, the data that we work with and the challenges we face. Discussion threads on a single topic can easily consist of hundreds or even thousands of individual contributions, with no obvious way to gain a quick overview ...