Deja Vu Displays
Everyday retrospective memory recall remains a real and open problem
especially among habitual household tasks ranging from forgetting
whether medication has been taken to recalling how many scoops of
laundry detergent of the five scoops required has been added.
One memory recall phenomenon is déjà vu defined as "an impression
of having seen or experienced something before; the experience of
thinking that a new situation had occurred before." This experience
epitomizes the memory slips we seek to address because memory recall
worsens by adding confusion between performing an action and intending
to perform an action. The secondary definition of déjà vu is a dull
familiarity and monotony. The sense of familiarity (i.e., rich context
inherent in already seen and felt personal experiences) from déjà vu
inspires our scaffolding of retrospective memory support.
We introduce a class of information displays we term
"deja vu displays" that captures the transient
information of recent activities and passively displays them as
surrogate memory. We present two system prototypes
"cook's collage"
and "memory mirror."
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people
Quan Tran [quantt@cc]
Elizabeth Mynatt [mynatt@cc]
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funding
This project is funded by the
Aware Home Research
Initiative and Broadband Institute. |
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publications
Tran, Q., Mynatt, E., Rogers, W. "Memory for Actions: Designing a
Cognitive Augmentation System." Student Poster to appear at Cognitive
Aging 2006.
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