The Story Machine: Combining Information Design/Visualization with Persuasion Design to Change Family-Story Sharing Behavior

Finding a life-enhancing way to share family wisdom (history, lore, facts, traditions, and beliefs) among generations is a twenty-first century global challenge, especially in the USA, where geographically distributed, asynchronous, merged families, with diverse cultural heritages constitute a significant portion of the population. Many in the older generation are not as familiar with mobile- and Web-based tools to manage their media and storytelling as their children and grandchildren. Nevertheless, they want to and need to share important stories about the past, perceptions about the present, and predictions of the future.