Whole Body Interaction - Position Paper Personal Sensor Networks Enriching Personal Digital Memories

During a lifetime, a person will accumulate a vast amount of personal data, information and memories. When the authors talk about memories, often it invokes suggestions of images, conversations, emotions and experiences. However an even greater diversity of information about a person can be found by also considering their documents, emails, creative works and so on. All of these things can go towards providing a picture of a person and their life. Their own minds have an astonishing ability to store and retrieve these large quantities of data. They are not perfect though, and with the relentless pace of technological change and ever increasing availability of cheap storage, the question arises as to whether they can augment their own memories using digital means.