Recall your actions!: using wearable activity recognition to augment the human mind

Abstract

In this position paper we will focus on wearable activity recognitions tools in regard to their function of detecting human activities and thus enabling the user to recall everyday experience in a new way. The capabilities of activity recognition to detect, store and present activities to the person who has performed it can not only help to recall the activities but also encourage the user to remember experiences related to the activities. In order to demonstrate this, we present two projects (cases) in which wearable activity recognition is used to support the users' recall capabilities. In the next step, we present a narrative theory of action and mind, which focuses on how humans retrospectively interpret and structure personal experience in their minds, their so called autobiographical memory. Finally, we present some further concepts and distinctions about what it means to memorize and recall personal data.