Total Recall - C. Gordon Bell [97]
The remote control in your home—or perhaps that you carry with you—can even be part of lifelogging.
Abe, M., Y. Morinishi, A. Maeda, M. Aoki, and H. Inagaki. 2009. “A Life Log Collector Integrated with a Remote-Controller for Enabling User Centric Services.” IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics 55, no. 1.
Cathal Gurrin’s Web page is http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~cgurrinand here are some of his papers about e-memories.
Doherty, A., C. Gurrin, G. Jones, and A. F. Smeaton. “Retrieval of Similar Travel Routes Using GPS Tracklog Place Names.” SIGIR 2006—Conference on Research and Development on Information Retrieval, Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, Seattle, Washington, August 6-11, 2006.
Gurrin, C., A. F. Smeaton, D. Byrne, N. O’Hare, G. Jones, and N. O’Connor. “An Examination of a Large Visual Lifelog.” AIRS 2008—Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, Harbin, China, January 16-18, 2008.
Lavelle, B., D. Byrne, C. Gurrin, A. F. Smeaton, and G. Jones. “Bluetooth Familiarity: Methods of Calculation, Applications and Limitations.” MIRW 2007—Mobile Interaction with the Real World, Workshop at the MobileHCI07: 9th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, Singapore, September 9, 2007.
Lee, H., A. F. Smeaton, N. O’Connor, G. Jones, M. Blighe, D. Byrne, A. Doherty, and C. Gurrin. 2008. “Constructing a SenseCam Visual Diary as a Media Process.” Multimedia Systems Journal, Special Issue on Canonical Processes of Media Production (in press) 14, no. 6:341-49.
Smeaton, A. F., N. O’Connor, G. Jones, G. Gaughan, H. Lee, and C. Gurrin. “SenseCam Visual Diaries Generating Memories for Life.” Poster presented at the Memories for Life Colloquium 2006, British Library Conference Centre, London, UK, December 12, 2006. [BibTex] Memories For Life Web site.
We started the CARPE (Capture, Archival and Retrieval of Personal Experiences) research workshop. Many interesting papers about lifelogging were presented at these workshops.
CARPE Web page. http://www.sigmm.org/Members/jgemmell/CARPE
The Microsoft Research Digital Memories program gave funding, MyLifeBits software, and SenseCams to fourteen universities. You can find information about the projects, including the published articles.
Digital Memories program Web site. http://research.microsoft.com/en- us/collaboration/focus/cs/memex.aspx
3. THE MEETING OF E-MEMORY AND BIOMEMORY
Some books that explain how our brains remember, misremember, and forget. Daniel Schacter’s seven sins of memory are: transience (the loss of memories over time), absentmindedness (forgetting due to inattentive-ness, or forgetting what you meant to do), blocking (the temporary inability to recall something, like someone’s name), misattribution (assigning a memory to the wrong source), suggestibility (memories planted by suggestions or leading questions), bias (using current knowledge to revise past memories), and persistence (unwanted recall of a memory).
Kandel, Eric. 2007. In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind. New York: W. W. Norton and Co.
Schacter, Daniel L. 2001. The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers. New York: Houghton Mifflin.
Wang, Sam, and Sandra Aamodt. 2008. Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life. New York: Bloomsbury USA.
Forgetfulness tends to get worse as we age, and midlife is often marked by a sharp increase in absentmindedness, as delightfully described by Cathryn Jakobson Ramin in Carved in Sand. She takes the reader on a midlife quest for improved memory, covering the gamut from synthetic estrogen to mental aerobics.
Ramin, Cathryn Jakobson. 2007. Carved in Sand: When Attention Fails and Memory Fades in Midlife. New