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Augmented Memory
Remembering and Forgetting
By: Rachel McNeely
Topics Covered
What
it is?
Example
Current
of Augmented Memory
Studies - My Life Bits
Positives
V's Risks
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What is Augmented Memory?
Augment - To make (something already developed or well under
way) greater, as in size, extent, or quantity
But what is it? Is it a device or what is it?
Augmented
Used
memory is a new medium.
to collect and store ‘digital life’.
Record
of everything they experience in their day.
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What is Augmented Memory?
Library is filled with books
Human memory is filled
with a persons
autobiographical memories
“Your cinematic deathbed flashback will already be
uploaded to your hard drive.” Scheeres 2002
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Examples
Automatically record / Users control
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Memex – Bush 1945
“A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books,
records and communications, and which is mechanized so that it
may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an
enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.”
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The Teddy – Turn Signals Don Norman
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Examples
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Electronic Diary
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Digital Photo Browser – Philips Research
Supports browsing, searching and sharing of digital photos in the
home environment.
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The Rememberance Agent – Starner
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Writing a paper - suggest relevant references
Reading email and scheduling an appointment suggest relevant constraints
Holding a conversation with a colleague at a
conference – relevant associations based on the notes
the user is taking
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Current Studies in Augmented Memory
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Nice2CU: Managing a Persons Augmented Memory
Graduate school of Informaion Science – Japan
Example: exchanging a business card
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MyLifeBits
Microsoft Research Project
Co–led Gordan Bell and Jim Gemmell
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My Life Bits
“A lifetime store of everything”
Book - Total Recall launched September 2009
Gordon Bell
Jim Gemmell
Microsoft
Researcher
Microsoft
Researcher
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Gordan Bells Homepage
Total Recall
My Life Bits
“Life Logging not Life Blogging”
“Not a product but a proof of concept”
Where it came from
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Guttenberb Project / Million book project
“One day we will be able to record everything we have heard
and seen” Bill Gates 1995
Gordans want to become paperless back in 1999
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My Life Bits
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youtube.com - Total Recall Intro
My Life Bits
“Its all just a bunch of bits” Gordon
Gemmell developed a database and created software.
Features:
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Add / Search
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Comments (text / speech)
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Webpages
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Telephone conversations
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Record TV / Radio
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GPS trails
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SenseCam – sense light changes, sense temp changes,
movement detection
More info at : YouTube - Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution will Change
My Life Bits
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youtube.com - Total Recall Usage
LifeLog
proposed by DARPA of the US Department of Defense
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A wearable invention
Stockpile all the texts of one’s life for future use.
Instantly sparked privacy debates
“the “LifeLog” title alone persuades us to see our lives as potentially
loggable which structures us(humans) as capturable by
computers”
Isabel
Pedersen
“I’m losing my mind and so is everybody else” Gordan
“If you want you can have total recall” Gemmell
“Wonderful sense of liberation” Gordan
More info at :
defensetech.org/archives
Positives V's Negatives
Positives
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Health
Family and Friends / Memories from child to adult
Gets rid of clutter / Space independent
Citations
Negatives 
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Negative experiences and human memory
Become reliant
Data-loss
Original Documents needed
Piracy issues
Privacy and Security
More info atYoutube
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- Authors@Google: Gordon Bell & Jim Gemmell
Future Studies
Broad topic
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Look into more augmented projects
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Fesibility of augmented systems as wearable devices
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Impact projects like myLifeBits could have on us in the future
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Augmented reality systems
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