Transcript Individuals with memory impairment

Martin Cowell, Colin Ho, Alexander Tyler, Angie Wang
MISSION STATEMENT
PROBLEM: Many people suffer from memory impairment
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44 million people with dementia worldwide
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Memory recall dependent on temporal/spatial multi-sensory cues
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Difficult to recall events with accuracy due to missing contextual details
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Written journals require laborious user input/photo journals only visual
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How does one quickly/efficiently search for a “memory”?
BENEFIT PROPOSITION: Make recording/recalling one’s life simple, easy, & useful
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Passively collect user’s daily narrative for memory augmentation
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Intuitively & efficiently navigate data that contextualizes memories
TARGET USER GROUPS
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Individuals with memory impairment: (Dementia, Alzheimer’s, Traumatic
Brain Injury, Amnesia, etc.)
 Require means of improving/compensating memory to conduct daily
activities without requiring user recall
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Quantified Self: Individuals wanting to self-track to identify/improve
lifestyle behaviors
 Need ability to track life in high fidelity & understand correlations
between activities/behaviors and health
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Others: people concerned with safety, people desiring “external memory bank” to help
contextualize memory/aid recollection
CONCEPT ORIGINATION
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Capture memories via photos/contextual clues
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Give contextual relevance using biometrics (location, events)
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Quickly/easily search auto-annotated records for enhanced memory
retrieval
OUR PROPOSAL
 Add biometric context to memory
 Smart image capture (variable frequency/fidelity dependent on
environment context via sensors)
PRELIMINARY DEVICE DESIGN
Live Upload
EEG
 Contextual/physiological sensors to aid in recall
 Camera, Microphone, Heart Rate Monitor, EEG,
GPS, Temperature
 Automatically identify and annotate memory log
 UI to display timeline of events
QUESTIONS & CONCERNS
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Public privacy / data security
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State / federal laws
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Personal data security
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Demand & user adoption (Core functionality/form factor)