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PAPERS: Longevity and Technology Location: McEwan Hall Auditorium Zoom Link Session Chair: Sofie Hodara, Northeastern University Session Chair: Miso Kim, Northeastern University | |
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Telling Stories, Making Hanzi: AI-Assisted Co-Creation with Elderly Migrants in Urban China 1: Hunan University, China, People's Republic of; 2: Royal College of Art, UK; 3: University of the Arts London, UK This paper explores how older migrants in urban China can record stories that everyday language and design often miss. We ran two co-creation workshops with 10 elders. Activities combined oral storytelling, facilitator-mediated AI assistance, and hand making. Large language models proposed candidate glyphs through a facilitator. Participants crafted new Hanzi to hold their stories. The resulting characters served as memory anchors for later sharing and retelling. Our interpretive analysis shows heterogeneity and adaptive capacity among participants. Participants experienced AI as a creative initiator that lowered barriers to expression and making, especially for those with lower digital literacy. The work challenges homogenizing assumptions about older adults and the presumption of uniform capacities and needs. We contribute a workshop framework that positions AI as a backstage facilitator. We also offer insights on engaging older migrants as sources of community memory and situated cultural knowledge within inclusive urban systems. View Paper: https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.963
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