Oral History: Preservation of Life Stories

The Psychology of Life Stories

Recent years have witnessed an upsurge of interest among theorists and researchers in autobiographical recollections, life stories, and narrative approaches to understanding human behavior and experience. An important development in this context is D. P. McAdams's life story model of identity (1985, 1993, 1996), which asserts that people living in modern societies provide their lives with unity...

Credibility of Stories about Design History

There is evidence that a story about design history is credible to the extent that it coheres with object affordances. Results that support this theory were generally obtained with artificial materials learned in laboratory experiments. In the current experiment, we extend these findings to real artifacts that occur naturally outside the laboratory. We presented participants of different levels...

Artiicial Life and Natural Stories

This paper speculates about`stories' as potentially useful units to construct historically grounded artii-cial life forms. We draw our motivation from the structure and organisation of biological life forms and the organisation of human memory and sociality. A fresh approach towards historical artiicial life creatures is to develop story-telling systems supported on situation-ally grounded, dis...

Celebrating life stories through music.

Music has always been a meaningful part of my life. I have been studying and performing since the age of five, but it was not until I was an adult, when my father was approaching the end of his life, that I realized just how profound the connection to music can be. While my father’s health was in decline, our strongest connections came from listening to music together. Listening to music that h...

The preservation of life.