Information and Communication Technologies in Support of Remembering

.....................................................................................................................................2 Acknowledgements .....................................................................................................................3 Chapter 1: Introduction ...............................................................................................................7 1.1 Aim of the Study and Area of Interest .............................................................................. 10 1.2 Contribution of the Study ................................................................................................ 10 1.3 Scope and Limitation of the Study ................................................................................... 11 1.4 Structure of the Dissertation ............................................................................................ 11 Chapter 2: Theoretical Framework and Literature Review ......................................................... 13 2.1 Classical Philosophy of Technology ................................................................................ 13 2.1.1 Hermeneutical Approach Readiness-to-hand and Presence-at-hand ......................... 13 2.1.2 Existential Approach................................................................................................. 14 2.2 Human-Technology Relations – The Empirical Turn ....................................................... 14 2.2.1 Embodiment Relation ............................................................................................... 15 2.2.2 Hermeneutic Relation ............................................................................................... 15 2.2.3 Alterity Relation ....................................................................................................... 16 2.2.4 Background Relation ................................................................................................ 16 2.3 Technological Mediation ................................................................................................. 17 2.4 Mediation of Perception .................................................................................................. 18 2.4.1 Transformation of Perception .................................................................................... 18 2.5 Mediation of Action ........................................................................................................ 19 2.5.1 Program of Action, Translation of Action, Delegation, and Prescription ................... 19 2.5.2 Script, Invitation, Inhibition, Context Dependency of Script, Multistability .............. 20 2.6 Theoretical Framework – a summary ............................................................................... 21 2.7 Remembering .................................................................................................................. 22 2.7.1 Prospective Memory ................................................................................................. 22 2.7.2 Retrospective Memory .............................................................................................. 23 2.8 Internal and External Strategies to Remember ................................................................. 23 2.9 Memory Aids .................................................................................................................. 23