Memory Ubiquitous: Providing Memories on Anything, Anywhere - A Case Study for Cooking Support

This paper introduces a novel concept of “Memory Ubiquitous” which provides smart memory functions for appliances, facilities, and equipments used in everyday life. At the first step to realize it, we first propose three fundamental functions. These are capturing and recording the surrounding scene including human behaviors, annotating and editing the records to construct smart memories, and presenting the integrated memories. These functions can support human activities by aiding recall, giving instructions, and providing asynchronous communications. We chose a kitchen as an actual test bed and built a prototype cooking support system with the above smart memory functions. We implemented a context sensitive record presentation based on state recognition and simultaneous display of multiple records that is adaptive to users´ intentions. By evaluating the system´s performance, we obtained several results that show how smart memory functions can assist human activities and how they can be extended for more useful services.