Assuaging Grief Through Mental Time Travel, Perspective Taking, and Digital Media

• In Event: ICA Plenary Interactive Paper/Poster Session II
  In Interactive Paper Session: Information Systems Interactive Poster Session

Abstract

This study will examine how re-creating memories or imagined scenarios of the deceased might facilitate the grieving process. Participants will create actual visual stories using digital media tools while incorporating memory dynamics involving past, present and future thought processes; and first and third person perspective taking. Analysis will include a two-phased interview process.

Author

• James G Collier, The Ohio State University