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Developing tools to enhance human memory

The RECALL project funded under the Future & Emerging Technologies (FET) programme has been exploring ways of using technology to augment human memory, for instance by feeding data from purpose-built personal memory banks onto screens and other interfaces to replay and remind people of key information from events in the recent or distant past.

date:  24/02/2017

Recent developments in capture technology and information retrieval allow for continuous and automated recordings of many aspects of our everyday lives. Wearable cameras mean many people undertake the regular logging of their activities (sometimes known as ‘life logging’). Such material could join other data in building memory banks to draw on for later activities and in older age.

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