Total Recall - C. Gordon Bell [98]
We quote Joseph LeDoux answering the Edge’s 2008 question “What have you changed your mind about?” LeDoux is the author of The Synaptic Self: How Our Brain Becomes Who We Are.
LeDoux in Edge. http://www.edge.org/q2008/q08_1.html
David Allen’s Getting Things Done advocates a “logical and trusted system outside of your head.” His insight that “if your reference material doesn’t have a nice clean edge to it, the line between actionable and nonaction able items will blur” points out how important an e-memory of reference material, in addition to action items, can be. In addition to the Getting Things Done book, there are conferences, seminars, software tools, and a host of Web articles devoted to helping you implement the Getting Things Done methodology.
Allen, David. 2003. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. New York: Penguin Books.
Allen’s Web site. http://www.davidco.com
Regarding false memories of sexual abuse, Elizabeth Loftus writes, “Now, nearly two decades later, there are hundreds of studies to support a high degree of memory distortion. People have recalled nonexistent broken glass and tape recorders, a clean-shaven man as having a mustache, straight hair as curly, and even something as large and conspicuous as a barn in a bucolic scene that contained no buildings at all.” “The repressed memory cases,” she observes, “are another outlet for women’s rage over sexual violence. Although women’s anger is certainly justified in many cases, and may be justified in some repressed memory cases too, it is time to stop and ask whether the net of rage has been cast too widely, creating a new collective nightmare.”
Loftus, Elizabeth F. 1993. “The Reality of Repressed Memories.” American Psychologist 48:518-37.
Danitz, Tiffany. 1997. “Making Up Memories?” Insight on the News (December 15).
Researchers at Dublin City University have done some really interesting work on dealing with thousands of SenseCam pictures (see also the work under Cathal Gurrin from the previous chapter).
Blighe, M., H. Le Borgne, N. O’Connor, A. F. Smeaton, and G. Jones. “Exploiting Context Information to Aid Landmark Detection in SenseCam Images.” ECHISE 2006—2nd International Workshop on Exploiting Context Histories in Smart Environments—Infrastructures and Design, 8th International Conference of Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2006), Orange County, California, September 17-21, 2006.
Byrne, D. 2007. “SenseCam Flow Visualization for LifeLog Image Browsing.” BCS IRSG Informer, no. 22 (Spring).
Byrne, D., B. Lavelle, A. Doherty, G. Jones, and A. F. Smeaton. “Using Bluetooth and GPS Metadata to Measure Event Similarity in SenseCam Images,” IMAI ’07—5th International Conference on Intelligent Multi media and Ambient Intelligence, Salt Lake City, Utah, July 18-24, 2007.
Doherty, A., A. F. Smeaton, K. Lee, and D. Ellis. “Multimodal Segmentation of Lifelog Data.” Eighth RIAO Conference—Large-Scale Semantic Access to Content (Text, Image, Video and Sound), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 30-June 1, 2007.
Lee, Hyowon, Alan F. Smeaton, Noel E. O’Connor, and Gareth J. F. Jones. “Adaptive Visual Summary of LifeLog Photos for Personal Information Management.” AIR 2006—First International Workshop on Adaptive Information Retrieval, Glasgow, UK, October 14, 2006.
O’Conaire, C., N. O’Connor, A. F. Smeaton, and G. Jones. “Organizing a Daily Visual Diary Using Multi-Feature Clustering.” SPIE Electronic Imaging—Multimedia Content Access: Algorithms and Systems (EI121), San Jose, California, January 28-February 1, 2007.
Smeaton, A. F. “Content vs. Context for Multimedia Semantics: The Case of SenseCam Image Structuring.” SAMT 2006—Proceedings of the First International Conference on Semantics and Digital Media Technology. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Athens, Greece, December 6-8, 2006.
Smeaton, A. F., D. Diamond, and B. Smyth. “Computing and Material Sciences for LifeLogging.” Presented at the Memories for Life Network Workshop 2006, British Library Conference Centre, London, UK, December 11,