Personally important autobiographical memories are the smallest unit of the life story, which begins to emerge in adolescence. This study examined 2 features of self-defining memories in late adolescence, the meaning made of the memories to garner an understanding of the narrative construction of identity as a life story and how those memories were told with an emphasis on the functions for tel...

A brief review of Marcel Proust’s views on art, photography and memory, as expressed in his À la recherche du temps perdu (1913-27), sets the scene for a discussion of the value of photographs as triggers for reminiscing as well as scope and limitations for computer-based visual narratives. The paper is illustrated by three short video interviews with inhabitants of the Czech Republic and the R...

During the past few decades, we have witnessed the development of an increasing number of products and research projects in the area of lifelogging. These range from early works by Steve Mann and Microsoft’s MyLifeBits project up to wearable cameras like the Autographer and Narrative Clip. These and other previous approaches focused on sensors worn by the user rather than sensors in the environ...

Drawing on literature relevant to the impact of sibling death, the authors examined the invisible loss of siblings never known. This article presents findings of a phenomenological study of 15 adult siblings who "storied" the psychological presence and power of a deceased infant sibling never known but who acted as memory keepers for their unknown sibling. Transcriptions of the 15 interviews we...

Experiments have shown that compared to fictional texts, readers read factual texts faster and have better memory for described situations. Reading fictional texts on the other hand seems to improve memory for exact wordings and expressions. Most of these studies used a "newspaper" vs. "literature" comparison. In the present study, we investigated the effect of reader's expectation to whether i...