Sharing the Housebound Experience through Visual Storytelling.

This pictorial aims to demonstrate the power of video for fostering creative personal storytelling among people who normally have limited opportunities to share their experiences. We discuss two video stories, created in collaboration with participants in a project that aimed to enable housebound people to share their stories within the local community. We present screenshots from the stories, with commentary explaining how each image encapsulated the storyteller's life experiences. These show how imagery, combined with narrative, can evocatively communicate the experiences of people who are housebound, potentially fostering empathy among others within the community. Visual storytelling can therefore be a valuable tool for promoting empathy among researchers and designers. In this pictorial, we demonstrate that visual storytelling provides a powerful way for people to share their experiences and for researchers to work with and get to know participants in marginalized communities.