Memory assistant in everyday living

• Autor(es): Costa, Ângelo ; Novais, Paulo ; Costa, Ricardo ; Neves, José
• Data: 2009
• Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/19084
• Origem: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Assunto(s): e-Health; Personal memory assistant; Ambient assisted living
• Tipo de Documento: Documento de conferência
• Idioma: Inglês

Descrição

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.