Historytelling

A project of the Institute for Multimedia and Interactive Systems.

The Historytelling project has the goal to empower older people to write, publish and share their life stories and experiences through an interactive social platform.

The idea behind the Historytelling project

The three levels of the Historytelling project

personal level

social participation
connection with other people
work on your own biography
cognitive training
lifelong learning

familiar level

transfer knowledge over several generations
maintaining and deepening contacts
- keep in touch with family members
- keep in touch with friends
- building new contacts

social level

collecting stories from multiple perspectives
beeing part of the society
sharing and apprecitation of know-how