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What it is?
Example of Augmented Memory
Current 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 memory is a new medium.
Used to collect and store ‘digital life’.
Record of everything they experience in their day.
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What is Augmented Memory?What is Augmented Memory?
“Your cinematic deathbed flashback will already be uploaded to your hard drive.” Scheeres 2002
Library is filled with booksHuman memory is filled
with a persons autobiographical memories
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Examples
Automatically record / Users control
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.”
The Teddy – Turn Signals Don Norman
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Electronic Diary
Digital Photo Browser – Philips ResearchSupports browsing, searching and sharing of digital photos in the
home environment.
The Rememberance Agent – Starner
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
Examples
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Current Studies in Augmented Memory
Nice2CU: Managing a Persons Augmented Memory
Graduate school of Informaion Science – Japan
Example: exchanging a business card
MyLifeBits Microsoft Research Project
Co–led Gordan Bell and Jim Gemmell
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My Life Bits “A lifetime store of everything”
Total Recall
Book - Total Recall launched September 2009
Jim Gemmell Microsoft Researcher
Gordon Bell Microsoft Researcher
Gordan Bells Homepage
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“Life Logging not Life Blogging”
“Not a product but a proof of concept”
Where it came from
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
My Life Bits
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“Its all just a bunch of bits” Gordon
Gemmell developed a database and created software.
Features: Add / Search
Comments (text / speech)
Webpages
Telephone conversations
Record TV / Radio
GPS trails
SenseCam – sense light changes, sense temp changes, movement detection
My Life Bits
YouTube - Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution will Change
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LifeLogproposed by DARPA of the US Department of Defense
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
defensetech.org/archives
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Positives V's NegativesPositives
Health Family and Friends / Memories from child to adult Gets rid of clutter / Space independent Citations
Negatives - Negative experiences and human memory Become reliant Data-loss Original Documents needed Piracy issues Privacy and Security
Youtube - Authors@Google: Gordon Bell & Jim Gemmell