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errata Friday, December 3, 2010 at 3:45PM SIGMM seems to have changed their website and deleted member and research area pages. So, to preserve the SIGMM CARPE page, I am posting it here.
CARPE RESEARCH AREA
Personal storage of all one's media throughout a lifetime has been desired and discussed since at least 1945, when Vannevar Bush published As We May Think, positing the "Memex" device "in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility." His vision was astonishingly broad for the time, including full-text search, annotations, hyperlinks, virtually unlimited storage and even stereo cameras mounted on eyeglasses. In 2004, storage, sensor, and computing technology have progressed to the point of making Memex feasible and even affordable. Indeed, we can now look beyond Memex at new possibilities. In particular, while media capture has typically been sparse throughout a lifetime, we can now consider continuous archival and retrieval of all media relating to personal experiences.
CARPE research is very broad, including the following topics:
The first workshop title used the word "continuous" rather than "capture". After some reflection, we decided "capture" was better, because we wanted to include research that was not continuous in nature, but still made an important contribution to the study of lifelong experience capture.
Links to past workshops: CARPE 2004 CARPE 2005 CARPE 2006
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Microsoft Research has now announced the winners of the Digital Memories (Memex) request for proposals, which includes funding, hardware, and software.
As We May Think, by Vannevar Bush, The Atlantic Monthly, 176(1), July 1945, 101-108.
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CARPE 2004 Workshop
DARPA: ASSIST Lifelog
Deja View
Designing for Collective Remembering Workshop
eChronicle 2006 Workshop
Exploiting Context Histories In Smart Environments (ECHISE) Workshop 2005
Experiential Personal Information Management
Eyeblog
Eyetap
Forget-me-not
Gray Turing Award Lecture, including "Personal Memex"
Haystack
iMeMex
Interaction Media
I Sensed
Keeping Things Found
Lifestreams Scopeware (based on LifeStreams)
Memories for Life grand challenge proposal (UK) Memories for Life Colloquium Dec 12, 2006.
Memory and Sharing of Experience Workshop
MyLifeBits
NSF PIM Workshop Jan 2005
OLIVER (in the 2nd paper of this file: "The Computer as a Communication Device" by Licklider and Taylor)
PERMM & Shoebox
Pervasive 2004 Workshop on Memory and Sharing of Experiences
Reality Mining Group @ MIT
Remembrance Agent
Stuff I've Seen
Teddy (Donald Norman, 1992)
Time-Machine Computing
Total Recall
What Was I Thinking?
Xanadu Ted Nelson Udanax
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Hominids, by Robert J. Sawyer: The body-implanted "companion" computer transmits "information about my location, as well as three-dimensional images of exactly what I am doing" to the "alibi archives".
The Truth Machine, by James Halperin: A scientist develops the perfect lie-detector, which changes criminal justice and people's behavior. There is also personal recording, and people have to make a point to meet off the record.
The Observers, by S. Gill Williamson: "In Jurassic time ... a reclusive alien civilization of micorobotic natural historians arrived on earth. Unnoticed, they have recorded the earth's history in magnificent detail." People in the book grapple with being watched and recorded. The aliens are able to copy all of the information related to a person to create a virtual person, raising the issue of digital immortality.
The Final Cut, directed by Omar Naim and starring Robin Williams. In the near future, people can have implants that record their life from their perspective. When they die, the implant is removed and a "cutter" edits the material to make a movie for the funeral.
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carpe Friday, November 19, 2010 at 4:26PM
An interesting perspective from an M.D. who has been involved for many years. He walks the reader through the pain of systems that were too slow, screens lacking resolution, shoddy user interface, data loss and more. Some examples:
In the late 1960s, a major computer vendor thought it could solve many hospital-based medical care issues in less than a year by deploying 96-button punch pads throughout the hospital to handle physician orders and intra-hospital communication.
...In the late 1960s and early 1970s, hardware limitations strained even demonstration systems
... I remember the promises from our "state of the art" enterprise RAID 5 storage vendor: "It will never go down." These promises were used to convince me to move off of my dual-write standby server ... This system is critical, providing realtime ED patient tracking, clinical laboratory result access, patient-care protocol information, emergency department log access, hospital EMR retrieval, metropolitan area hospital ambulance divert status, and physician and nurse order communication, among other functions. Unfortunately, the storage system that was promised to "never go down" had two 5-hour failures over a two-year period, thoroughly dispelling the myth of reliability promised by the vendor.
No wonder many doctors have been less than excited about computerization. But there has been improvement:
A very significant area of technological improvement has been in the acquisition, processing, transmission, and presentation (display) of graphical images. This capability has, over the past decade, given us increasingly sophisticated CAT scan and MRI results and has allowed most hospitals to discontinue the use of X-ray film almost completely, using digitally stored images instead. These PACS (picture archiving storage) systems have revolutionized radiology and improved patient care by allowing easy distribution of these images to all care providers of a specific patient, putting an end to the endless problem of trying to chase down the original physical X-ray film.
Solutions are now know to all the problems mentioned in the article (although improvements can always be made). With many problems in the past, and with new doctors graduating with smartphones and iPads, we should be expecting a time of rapid change.
Thursday, November 11, 2010 at 6:32PM Best Buy may soon be selling wireless health devices in more than half of its 1,089 U.S. stores, according to this article in BusinessWeek. AT&T and Qualcomm are among the major players on the device side, as mobile phone expected to be at the hub of communications of what is being dubbed "m-health"
"The smartphone is really driving m-health," says Kenneth Seymens, a partner at venture capital firm Vesalius Ventures.
Best Buy appears interested in Microsoft HealthVault for storage
At the Microsoft Connected Health Conference this past June, Best Buy teamed up with Microsoft’s HealthVault team to invite device makers to pitch the electronics store’s executives in a private meeting at the event
Best Buy, healthvault in Health Sunday, September 19, 2010 at 10:28PM
http://www.kk.org/quantifiedself/2010/09/gordon-bell-on-mylifebits.php
From the Quantitative Self Meeting Notes 13 August, 2010.
"At the Bay Area QS Show&Tell meetup, Gordon Bell, legendary lifelogger at Microsoft and co-author of Total Recall gave a candid, engaging talk on his MyLifeBits project. He showed pictures from his SenseCam that takes a picture every 20 seconds while he's wearing it. He generates 1 GB of data per month, including a screenshot of every website he visits and the hundreds of pages of health records from his multiple bypass surgeries. Gordon considers his data to be a surrogate memory - he doesn't look at it unless he needs to remember something specific, and he enjoys making films from the pictures. Resources that he mentioned using include an Oregon Scientific pedometer and the Canyon Ranch preventive health resort in Lenox, Massachusetts.
Watch the controversy below that emerged when Gordon speculated that if he had been wearing his heart monitor strap while bicycling, he could have prevented his last heart attack - a cardiologist in the audience disagreed that the tracking could have saved him."