Memories for Life Medical Applications Panel

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Memories for LifeMedical Applications Panel

• Alan Newell U. of Dundee
• Norman Alm U. of Dundee
• Emma Berry Microsoft
• Tilly Mortimore U. of Southampton

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M4L for people who need them

• Medical situations
• Older People
• All of us
• (Occasional cognitive lapses !)

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Cognitive Prostheses

• Prospective
• Cancel the papers, feed the dog
• Immediate
• What is his/her name ?
• Why am I here ?
• Retrospective
• Where did I put the screwdriver ?
• What was I supposed to be buying ?
• Did I lock the door ?
• Have I taken my medicine ?

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Research questions

• Efficient ways of finding data
• Methods for searching video/audio data
• The need to tag in real time ?

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M4L for telling stories

• Story-telling aid what did you do in the war
  granddad ?
• Self worth
• Perceived competence
• Who was I / Who am I ?
• How to deal with me socially and physically
• Obituaries

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Research issues

• To stimulate OR to replace memories ?
• How and when will we know which events do we /
  will we want ?
• Why will want to re-create them ?
• What do we want to re-create ?
• Information ?
• Actual memories ?
• Evocative memories ?

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Research Questions

• Requirements Gathering
• what memories are actually wanted/needed
• How does this vary with
• Culture, Age, Socio economic status
• Perceived importance
• Intellectual capability
• Sensory capacity (congenitally blind / deaf )

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We are all stories, just stories

• It is the way we tell them
• which is crucial !
• or
• Did I spend my life watching paint dry ?

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Research Questions

• Search and navigation through data
• Presentation of data
• Turning it into
• Information, a story, or a myth
• Actual time and perceived time
• Suspension of disbelief

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A multi-disciplinary challenge

• How to change data
• into information
• into narrative ?

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