A Context-Aware Mobile Phone for Remembering Names and Faces

This paper describes an early approach for designing a memory aid for the elderly. The goal of the memory aid is to help the user remember names and faces of people in his or her social network. This paper also introduces two concepts related to cognitive aids that could benefit from discussion at the workshop: the need for evaluation techniques for cognitive aids, and the design of “invisible” aids.

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