This paper gives an overview of the field of wearable computing. It covers the key differences between wearables and other portable computers, and discusses issues with the design and application for wearables. There then follows a specific example, the wearable remembrance agent — a proactive memory aid. The paper concludes with discussion of future directions for research and applications ins...

The invention of photography was followed by its extensive usage as visual documentation any possible scene, nature, human, object or event. watchful eye the camera hailed an impassive observer facts, a witness that tells no lies entrusted with preservation public and personal histories. Under these assumptions it connected crystallization collective memory well wide initiation private archivin...

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) established a central theme of psychoanalysis: the past is alive in the present. Influences experienced in the past are not something that can be completely outgrown by the individual or society; they remain vital parts of existence. Rene Dubos (1901–1982), French-born American microbiologist, experimental pathologist, environmentalist, humanist, and Pulitzer Prize-win...

When I was young and brash and generally ignorant, I found writing easy. I could dash off pieces entitled “Towards a Semantic Sociology” with no effort at all. This appeared in a student’s magazine but fortunately did not achieve wide circulation and does not figure in my list of publications. I was eighteen and a committed logical positivist. At an even earlier age, I won a prize for writing. ...