Augmented MemoryRemembering and Forgetting

By: Rachel McNeely

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Topics Covered

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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My Life Bits

youtube.com - Total Recall Intro

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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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My Life Bits

youtube.com - Total Recall Usage

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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

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Broad topic

Look into more augmented projects

Fesibility of augmented systems as wearable devices

Impact projects like myLifeBits could have on us in the future

Augmented reality systems

Future Studies