Memory Augmentation Through Lifelogging: Opportunities and Challenges

2021 
Perfect memory is a dream long sought and which has become especially prevalent in our knowledge society. While only a few are blessed with a photographic memory, most people compensate for the fallacies of their memory with the use of tools and tricks to organize information, schedule reminders and remember facts. Most aspects of our lives, however, leave behind some sort of data trail. We explicitly document our trips and experiences while our phones implicitly record our movements and messages. The sum of these recordings paints a holistic picture of our activities in a so-called lifelog. Lifelogging technologies have long been praised for extending our memory’s capacity by allowing us to recall and browse our recorded experiences. But despite positive, well-documented effects on memory and well-being, lifelogging largely remains a niche activity with few commercially successful applications. Over recent years, we built a series of prototypes to investigate the challenges and opportunities of lifelogging technologies. We investigated the positioning of on-body cameras, the collection of implicit and explicit lifelogging data, requirements for effective lifelog reviews, automated summaries and ways to navigate multimedia lifelogs. In this chapter, we discuss the potential of these technologies to augment memory and the obstacles of bringing memory prosthetics to a broad audience.
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