In dementia care, difficulties in conversation are linked to a number of obstacles, for which we have developed a taxonomy comprised of four categories – cognitive, physical, social and identity. This paper describes current research being undertaken to ameliorate some of these obstacles using technology, including Project CIRCA and the Nostalgia project, as well as work currently being underta...

My intention is to reconstruct three “relational notions” (Popper) – house, homeland, and nostalgia in order show the violent strategies that determine them on which they depend. Nostalgia idea of returning “oneself”, along with various protocols affirmation identity, birth, dwelling, imply interruption war violence while also allowing for their possibility renewal. The text affirms Clausewitz’...

We describe a case study of community computing: The development of an archive called “Blacksburg Nostalgia”. We worked with a senior citizens to create a Web forum for publishing and discussing informal stories about local history. We describe the origins of our project and the design of the system; we analyze an example story and its annotations, as well as usage logs and a recent user survey.

The papers in the session "Food Culture and Consumer Response," show how important people's values, beliefs, aspirations and social context are to their dietary health. They also reveal several tensions that shape consumer responses to healthy food. This essay discusses the paradoxical nature of eating habits in general, and describes three paradoxes related specifically to the challenges of pr...

â  â  â€˜eghterab’ in iraqi emigrants' poetry: the case of ahmad matar â â â jafar delshad * â seyyed adnan eshkewaree ** â  â abstractâ  the word ‘eghterab’ in human sciences has different concepts which could be classified into three groups: 1) westernization and tending to western culture or being alien with eastern authenticity 2) nostalgia and homesickness caused by being away f...