Ubiquitous Memories: a memory externalization system using physical objects

Kawamura, Tatsuyuki; Fukuhara, Teruyuki; Takeda, Hideaki; Kono, Yasuyuki; Kidode, Masatsugu

doi:10.1007/s00779-006-0085-4

Cited by 35 publications

(17 citation statements)

References 9 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…For example, it is not unusual that we need to find an object or a document but don't remember where it is, or we meet someone we saw before but can't recall the person's name. Ubiquitous Memories [7] is a tool designed to automatically retrieve video clips which were captured when an object was previously presented. The developers also argue it to be a tool to help people find physical objects.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, retrieving an object related to a recording when someone touches an object for which the sensor information is passed to the retrieval system as a query. Another system called Ubiquitous memories [7] automatically retrieves target objects related to a video recoding which automatically tagged when touching the object. Face detection techniques are used in [8] to tag a person related to a memory, and enable automatic retrieval of personal information triggered by detecting of the face.…”

Section: Retrievalmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Augmenting human memory using personal lifelogs

Chen

Jones

2010

Proceedings of the 1st Augmented Human International Conference

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Memory is a key human facility to support life activities, including social interactions, life management and problem solving. Unfortunately, our memory is not perfect. Normal individuals will have occasional memory problems which can be frustrating, while those with memory impairments can often experience a greatly reduced quality of life. Augmenting memory has the potential to make normal individuals more effective, and those with significant memory problems to have a higher general quality of life. Current technologies are now making it possible to automatically capture and store daily life experiences over an extended period, potentially even over a lifetime. This type of data collection, often referred to as a personal life log (PLL), can include data such as continuously captured pictures or videos from a first person perspective, scanned copies of archival material such as books, electronic documents read or created, and emails and SMS messages sent and received, along with context data of time of capture and access and location via GPS sensors. PLLs offer the potential for memory augmentation. Existing work on PLLs has focused on the technologies of data capture and retrieval, but little work has been done to explore how these captured data and retrieval techniques can be applied to actual use by normal people in supporting their memory. In this paper, we explore the needs for augmenting human memory from normal people based on the psychology literature on mechanisms about memory problems, and discuss the possible functions that PLLs can provide to support these memory augmentation needs. Based on this, we also suggest guidelines for data for capture, retrieval needs and computer-based interface design. Finally we introduce our work-in-process prototype PLL search system in the iCLIPS project to give an example of augmenting human memory with PLLs and computer based interfaces.

show abstract

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Retrievalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Augmenting human memory using personal lifelogs

Chen

Jones

2010

Proceedings of the 1st Augmented Human International Conference

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…In addition, the location of objects can be utilized to arrange externalized knowledge for easy recall. There have been several approaches to associate computerized information with real objects, e.g., using Radio Frequency Identification (Kawamura et al, 2007), (Kim et al, 2005) or using 2-D barcode (Rekimoto et al 1998). The approaches are useful to recognize the objects in a physical sense.…”

Section: Definitions Of Terms 1) Skt (Spatial-knowledge-tag)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Human System Interaction through Distributed Devices in Intelligent Space

Sasaki

Toshima²,

Niitsuma³

et al. 2009

Advances in Human-Robot Interaction

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…[17,18,23]), with rather fewer studies of the role of memories in people's emotional life and the implications for technology design. The Memory Box [11] used a jewelry box metaphor to associate a recorded narrative with a souvenir.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

AutoTopography

Petrelli

Whittaker

Brockmeier

2008

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

114

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Current technology makes it possible to capture huge amounts of information related to everyday experiences. Despite this, we know little about the processes by which people identify and manage mementos -objects which are directly meaningful to their memories. Among the millions of objects people encounter in a lifetime, few become such reminders of people, places or events. We report fieldwork where participants gave us a tour of their homes describing how and why particular objects become mementos. Our findings extend the existing digital memory literature; first our participants didn't view their activities as experiential 'capture', nor were mementos limited to pictorial representations of people and events; instead they included everyday objects. Furthermore, mementos were not only displayed and shared, but also integrated into everyday activities. Finally there were complex relations between house location and memento type. We discuss the theoretical and technical implications of our work.

show abstract

Ubiquitous Memories: a memory externalization system using physical objects

Cited by 35 publications

References 9 publications

Augmenting human memory using personal lifelogs

Augmenting human memory using personal lifelogs

Human System Interaction through Distributed Devices in Intelligent Space

AutoTopography

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About