Augmenting Memory Recall in Work Meetings
Evangelos Niforatos, Matías Laporte, Agon Bexheti, Marc Langheinrich · 2018
The proliferation of ubiquitous technologies has allowed us to capture increasing amounts of our daily life in digital format ("lifelogging"). While much work in lifelogging has focused on augmenting human memory in clinical settings, e.g., for people with dementia, the ability to recall our past obviously has also importance in one's work life. Being able to better recall a work meeting could improve coordination and collaboration among peers, ultimately raising overall productivity. To better understand the potential of memory augmentation technology for improving work meetings, we conducted a multi-week study with seven groups. Using a within-subjects design, participants in the experimental condition were, prior to a meeting, briefly presented with an automatically created memory augmentation aid (slides), based on captured data from a prior meeting. Our results show that a 3-4 minute exposure to our simple image-keywords slide deck prior to a meeting, increased our participants' ability to recall their previous meeting by up to 15 %. Our findings serve as an initial baseline against which future memory augmentation systems can be compared.