Memory assistant in everyday living

Memory is one’s mental ability to store, to retain, and recall information, representing past and future, our dreams and/or expectations. However, as the human been ages, the capacity of remembering decreases as well the ability to pile up new memories, therefore affecting our quality-of-living and...

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Main Author: Costa, Ângelo (author)
Other Authors: Novais, Paulo (author), Costa, Ricardo (author), Neves, José (author)
Format: conferencePaper
Language:eng
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/19084
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/19084
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Summary:Memory is one’s mental ability to store, to retain, and recall information, representing past and future, our dreams and/or expectations. However, as the human been ages, the capacity of remembering decreases as well the ability to pile up new memories, therefore affecting our quality-of-living and lowering our self- esteem. This configures a social and human dilemma. With the present work we intend to address some of these problems, in terms of a Personal Memory Assistant (PMA), in order to help the user to remember things and occurrences, making it in a proactive mode. It will also cater for some form of relaxation on the part of the user.