A Context-Aware Mobile Phone for Remembering Names

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A Context-Aware Mobile Phone for Remembering
Names Faces

• Mike Massimi

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Why Names?

• Peoples names
• Dates
• Household items
• (Leirer et al., 1990)

• Names
• Where you put things
• Telephone numbers you just checked
• 7. Faces
• (Bolla et al., 1991)

• Names
• Facts
• Objects
• (Cavanaugh et al., 1983)

Embarrassment, loss of self-identity, social
isolation
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Participatory Design Team

• 5 normally aging seniors
• 1 geriatric psychologist
• 1 computer scientist
• Weekly 2 hour meetings

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Design Activities

• Artifact needs analysis
• Scenarios storyboarding
• Requirements engineering
• Screen designs
• Evaluation
• 2-3 mo. deployment
• Self-reports on use
• System logs

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Challenges and Themes

• Designing invisible aids
• Avoiding unwanted attention labels
• Evaluation methods
• Case studies? System logs?
• Measures and operationalizing them

Thank you! Mike Massimi University of
Toronto mikem_at_dgp.toronto.edu www.dgp.toronto.edu/
mikem