Total Recall - C. Gordon Bell [99]
There is lots of other work on automatic summarization; for example, this paper on video summarization:
Sundaram, Hari, and Shih-Fu Chang. “Condensing Computable Scenes Using Visual Complexity and Film Syntax Analysis.” Second IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME-2001), Tokyo, Japan, August 2001.
We mention a wearable system from the University of Tokyo that includes a brain wave sensor in a baseball cap. Their system also continuously captures video, GPS, gyroscope, and accelerometer data.
Aizawa, Kiyoharu, Datchakorn Tancharoen, Shinya Kawasaki, and Toshi hiko Yamasaki. “Efficient Retrieval of Life Log Based on Context and Content.” Proceedings of the First ACM Workshop on Continuous Archival and Retrieval of Personal Experiences (CARPE ’04), New York, October 15, 2004, 21-31.
Hori, Tetsuro, and Kiyohara Aizawa. “Context-Based Video Retrieval System for the Life-Log Applications.” Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, Berkeley, California, 2003.
reQall has a Web site, and there are a number of good articles about reQall, including the one in Forbes, below.
reQall Web site. http://www.reQall.com
Woyke, Elizabeth. 2008. “You Must Remember This.” Forbes (September 30).
reQall cofounder Sunil Vemuri previously developed a PDA system to record audio and location. Calendar, e-mail, and common Web site and weather reports could also be captured. Speech-to-text was performed, and regular text search was augmented with phonetic “sounds-like” search. A speaker identification algorithm was also used, and text was colored according to speaker.
Vemuri, S., C. Schmandt, W. Bender, S. Tellex, and B. Lassey. “An Audio-Based Personal Memory Aid.” In Proceedings of Ubicomp 2004: Ubiquitous Computing, Nottingham, UK, September 7-10, 2004, 400-17.
Supermemo:
Supermemo Web site. http://www.supermemo.com
Wolf, Gary. 2008. “Want to Remember Everything You’ll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm.” Wired (April 21).
Rank Xerox EuroParc had a number of projects involving capture in aid of human memory. Pepys was a diary automatically created and mailed to the user each day. It was based on location information derived from Active Badges worn by the users. Episodes were recognized (e.g., “Meeting with Joe” or “Working in office”), false positives were rejected (e.g., people sharing an office should not be presumed to be constantly in a meeting), and the level of detail was reduced to a workable summary. A “video diary” (actually a series of images captured at a rate of around ten frames per minute) was also captured by cameras in the building. Marcel was a paper document tracking system that used a video camera mounted over the user’s desk. Documents on the desk were compared with the database of documents to identify them. Forget-me-not was a memory aid system. It logged e-mail, file sharing, printing, and telephone calls and supported browsing of a user’s diary, with events filtered by when, where, or who to aid recall. A study compared three conditions: (1) no computer support, (2) Pepys, (3) “video diary.” They found Pepys improved recall, and video did even more. People and objects were the most common memory cues.
Eldridge, Margery, Michael Lamming, and Mike Flynn. 1992. “Does a Video Diary Help Recall?” In A. Monk, D. Diaper, and M. D. Harri son (eds.), People and Computers VII. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 257-69, also published as Technical Report EPC-1991-124, Rank Xerox Research Center, Cambridge, UK, 1992.
Lamming, M., and M. Flynn. “Forget-me-not: Intimate Computing in Support of Human Memory,” Proceedings of FRIEND21,’94 International Symposium on Next Generation Human Interface, Meguro Gajoen, Japan, 1994.
Lamming, M., P. Brown, K. Cater, M. Eldridge, M. Flynn, G. Louie, P. Robinson, and A. Sellen. 1994. “The Design of a Human Memory Prosthesis.” The Computer Journal 37, no, 3:153-63.
Lamming, M. G. “Using Automatically Generated Descriptions of Human Activity to