around a small camera on their neck for a year, which took a frame every
few seconds, to see what people were paying attention to.
Very fascinating stuff, I'll try to find out who did it.
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Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 10:05 AM
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Subject: [ydn-delicious] using del as a cognitive prosthetic
I've been pondering the use of del.icio.us and tagging as a part
of a
cognitive prosthetic device for people who get disoriented in
environments, have memory problems, and/or trouble focusing on
salient
parts of the environment.
I've been thinking something like this could help, for example,
people
with alzheimers who may not be physically deprecit but who
cannot, due
to mental problems, go out and enjoy life.
I think I posted about this here when I once made a post on
tagging
everything and said that I read an article about Gorden Bell in
a
recent issue of CACM in an article about LifeBits and research
at
Microsoft.
That type of stuff could be excellently used for medical
purposes, to
allow people to be mobile and functioning at a better level than
now,
but the sad thing occured to me that most people would not be
able to
afford it because the research is going on at very costly
places--and
even were they to put out something, it wouldn't be properly
modular
such as to allow for people to write their own, cheap or free,
adaptors to it because not only wouldn't it be designed easily
for
such purposes, the API would probably be closes.
Not only that, what I might think of as the hardware API would
also be
closed. So, I was thinking of this, and thinking that a group of
people could get together to work out some of these
problems--the
sensors, hardware for locating people in an environment, &c.
wouldn't
be as sexy and small as what a company with a lot of money could
accomplish, but it could probably accomplish things well enough.
The location in space to a high degree of accuracy such that a
person
could be assisted with orienteering might not be good enough
with GSM
(I haven't kept track of these things), but I know that other
methods
could be used--wifi. And businesses and metro areas might be
able to
place points around as a public service--they are already making
free
wifi available to the public.
Anyway, I thought it was a neat idea, and was wondering if
anyone had
already done it?
Oh, and I had this post stored as a draft for a while, but I was
reminded to actually send it due to an article in <interactions>
XIII.3. So, it's entirely plausible that people are working on
this.
If anyone here is, I'd like to read about it.
<http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1125864.1125880&coll=portal&dl=AC
M&idx=1125864&part=periodical&WantType=periodical&title=interactions&CFI
D=71318471&CFTOKEN=94907795>
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