Remembrance Agent http://www.remem.org/ was created by Bradley Rhodes, one of the group of "cyborgs" doing wearable computing research at MIT at that time.
... and after a quick search, it looks like he works at the Google, most likely on Glass.
I've actually worked with the Thad Starner and the Remembrance Agent before. Let me tell you, it's even cooler than it looks.
Of note, there's a version of the RA that has additions that make it more suitable for use on wearable computers. The first item in the papers section (Using Physical Context..., 2003) describes all the extra stuff that the wearable version does.
Goal-wise this reminds me of the Memex [1], albeit with automated creation and display of associative trails.
I wonder, though, if the manner in which it presents information in the Emacs UI (namely, as a list of headlines over a part of the screen that is continuously updated) could worsen understanding and natural memorization in the way some research shows news tickers on television do [2].
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Remembrance Agent http://www.remem.org/ was created by Bradley Rhodes, one of the group of "cyborgs" doing wearable computing research at MIT at that time.
... and after a quick search, it looks like he works at the Google, most likely on Glass.
I've actually worked with the Thad Starner and the Remembrance Agent before. Let me tell you, it's even cooler than it looks.
Of note, there's a version of the RA that has additions that make it more suitable for use on wearable computers. The first item in the papers section (Using Physical Context..., 2003) describes all the extra stuff that the wearable version does.
Goal-wise this reminds me of the Memex [1], albeit with automated creation and display of associative trails.
I wonder, though, if the manner in which it presents information in the Emacs UI (namely, as a list of headlines over a part of the screen that is continuously updated) could worsen understanding and natural memorization in the way some research shows news tickers on television do [2].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex
[2] http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/08838158509386593, http://blog.lib.umn.edu/stgeorge/artofscientificpresentation...