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Andy Hamilton - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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'Scottish Commonsense' about Memory
Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2010Co-Authors: Andy HamiltonAbstract:Reid rejects the image theory --the representative or indirect realist position--that Memory-judgements are inferred from or otherwise justified by a present image or introspectible state. He also rejects the trace theory, which regards memories as essentially traces in the brain. In contrast he argues for a direct knowledge account in which Personal Memory yields unmediated knowledge of the past. He asserts the reliability of Memory, not in currently fashionable terms as a reliable belief-forming process, but more elusively as a principle of Commonsense. There remains a contemporary consensus against Reid's position. I argue that Reid's critique is essentially sound, and that the consensus is mistaken; Personal Memory judgements are spontaneous and non-inferential in the same way as perceptual judgements. But I question Reid's account of the connection between Personal Memory and Personal identity. My primary concern is rationally reconstructive rather than scholarly, and downplays recent interpretations...
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'Scottish Commonsense' about Memory
Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2003Co-Authors: Andy HamiltonAbstract:Reid rejects the image theory --the representative or indirect realist position--that Memory-judgements are inferred from or otherwise justified by a present image or introspectible state. He also rejects the trace theory , which regards memories as essentially traces in the brain. In contrast he argues for a direct knowledge account in which Personal Memory yields unmediated knowledge of the past. He asserts the reliability of Memory, not in currently fashionable terms as a reliable belief-forming process, but more elusively as a principle of Commonsense. There remains a contemporary consensus against Reid's position. I argue that Reid's critique is essentially sound, and that the consensus is mistaken; Personal Memory judgements are spontaneous and non-inferential in the same way as perceptual judgements. But I question Reid's account of the connection between Personal Memory and Personal identity. My primary concern is rationally reconstructive rather than scholarly, and downplays recent interpretations of Reid's faculty psychology as a precursor of functionalism and other scientific philosophies of mind.
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False Memory Syndrome and the Authority of Personal Memory-Claims: A Philosophical Perspective
Philosophy Psychiatry & Psychology, 1998Co-Authors: Andy HamiltonAbstract:My central argument is that the theoretical presuppositions of psychology serve to obscure the debate over false Memory. Psychologists have failed to recognize that the reliability of Personal Memory is a presupposition human knowledge; we have to ado pt a non-neutral stance to Personal Memory-claims as testimony. Memory may not be "reproductive," but it is not "reconstructive" either, in the sense defended for instance by Elizabeth Loftus in The Myth of Repressed Memories. Philosophical account s of Personal Memory emphasize the distinction between Personal and merely factual Memory of one's own past, which tends to be neglected in psychology. This is a datum, not a result of theorizing. I elucidate the distinction, and contrast di rect and indirect realist theories of Memory, defending the former as emphasizing the spontaneous, authoritative nature of Personal Memory-claims. The "reconstructive" conception of "Memory as narrative" assumed by psychologists such as Loftus disparages reliability and spontaneity. It claims that I integrate my Personal memories with less direct sources of knowledge into a "narrative" that appears consistent to myself now. This view has not been much discussed in the philosophical literature. I argue tha t the "Memory as narrative" conception is mistaken, and serves to confuse the debate over false Memory. I also argue that the debate is unlikely to be undermined by Ian Hacking's argument that past human actions are to a certain extent indeterminate. My p oints of disagreement with Loftus concern: (1) Her mis-assimilation of false Memory with ordinary Memory-errors. Where memories are mistaken, they are almost invariably "false-in-detail" . "Completely-false" memories are necessarily rare. Loftus and other psychologists tend to gloss over this vital distinction. The results of therapeutic suggestion are not part of a general pattern of "reconstruction" of the past through Personal Memory, as the narrative conception suggests. (2) Her wholesale rejection of repression. However, she may be right in arguing that there is a distinct and questionable category of "robust repression." (3) Her conviction that scientific theory can make us change our ordinary methods of assessing the reliability of tes timony. There are strict limits to such change. I conclude by examining the tension between repression and the paradigm of a spontaneous Memory-judgment.
Hendrik Schulze - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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KiVS - Modeling a Mobile Memory Aid System
Kommunikation in Verteilten Systemen (KiVS), 2020Co-Authors: Hendrik Schulze, Andrei Voinikonis, Thomas Hoffmann, Klaus IrmscherAbstract:The electronic Memory aid system MEMOS was developed at Leipzig University to support patients with Memory disturbances. Starting from this application background MEMOS is designed as a distributed system where a central server component controls a special handheld computer, the Personal Memory Assistant (PMA), over a GSM or a GPRS cellular phone network. To guarantee a wide flexibility and adaptability of the system to concrete deployment scenario the structuring of the information which is generated by the system and processed by the PMA is an essential component of MEMOS. This paper describes the modeling of the central data structures and the consequences to the system architecture.
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distributed processing of reminding tasks within the mobile Memory aid system memos
Ubiquitous Computing, 2005Co-Authors: Andrei Voinikonis, Klaus Irmscher, Hendrik SchulzeAbstract:The mobile extensible Memory and orientation system (MEMOS) is a nomadic computing system designed to support patients with disturbances in the prospective Memory. The system consists of two parts which are loosely connected via general packet radio service (GPRS): a mobile electronic device [Personal Memory assistant (PMA)] to remind the patient of important tasks and a base station that coordinates the activities of caregivers and notifies them about the result of the task execution. A major requirement of MEMOS is the autonomous operation of the PMA. This is accomplished by avoiding mobile transactions, the specification of temporal aspects in the task description, introduction of different states for tasks of the PMA and the base station and by splitting task and result management. Special extensible markup language (XML) based languages were developed for data exchange between the base station and the PMA to reflect the temporal aspects of the tasks and for logging the results of task execution.
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ASSETS - MEMOS: an interactive assistive system for prospective Memory deficit compensation-architecture and functionality
Proceedings of the ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility - ASSETS '04, 2004Co-Authors: Hendrik SchulzeAbstract:The Mobile Extensible Memory Aid System (MEMOS) is an electronic Memory aid system which was developed to support patients with deficits in the prospective Memory after a brain injury. A special palmtop computer, the Personal Memory Assistant (PMA), reminds the patient of important tasks and supervises the patient's actions. The PMA communicates with a stationary care system via a bidirectional cellular radio connection (GPRS). MEMOS features structured interactive reminding impulses, a flexible task scheduling, integration of a heterogeneous group of caregivers and integration in the patient's everyday life. The bidirectional communication allows for reporting of critical situations back to a responsible care-giver, so MEMOS can be used even in a critical context. This paper describes the requirements for a Memory aid system, the design and functionality of MEMOS as well as its application in the practical care of patients.
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UMICS - Distributed task processing within the mobile Memory aid system MEMOS
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2004Co-Authors: Andrei Voinikonis, Klaus Irmscher, Hendrik SchulzeAbstract:MEMOS is a nomadic computing system to support patients with disturbances in the prospective Memory. The system consists of two parts which are loosely connected via GPRS: a mobile electronic device (Personal Memory Assistant – PMA) to remind the patient of important tasks and a Base Station that coordinates the activities of caregivers and notifies them about the result of the task execution. A major requirement of MEMOS is the autonomous operation of the PMA. This is accomplished by avoiding mobile transactions, the specification of temporal aspects in the task description, introduction of different states for tasks of the PMA and the Base Station, and by splitting task and result management. Special XML based languages were developed for data exchange between Base Station and PMA to reflect the temporal aspects of the tasks and for logging the results of task execution.
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modeling a mobile Memory aid system
Kommunikation in Verteilten Systemen, 2003Co-Authors: Hendrik Schulze, Andrei Voinikonis, Thomas Hoffmann, Klaus IrmscherAbstract:The electronic Memory aid system MEMOS was developed at Leipzig University to support patients with Memory disturbances. Starting from this application background MEMOS is designed as a distributed system where a central server component controls a special handheld computer, the Personal Memory Assistant (PMA), over a GSM or a GPRS cellular phone network. To guarantee a wide flexibility and adaptability of the system to concrete deployment scenario the structuring of the information which is generated by the system and processed by the PMA is an essential component of MEMOS. This paper describes the modeling of the central data structures and the consequences to the system architecture.
Abhinav Sethy - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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ICASSP - Speech processing and retrieval in a Personal Memory aid system for the elderly
2011 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2011Co-Authors: Alexander Sorin, Michael Kuritzky, Yael Erez, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Hagai Aronowitz, Orith Toledo-ronen, Ron Hoory, Jonathan Mamou, Abhinav SethyAbstract:The paper presents a new application of automatic speech processing in the Ambient Assisted Living area, developed in the course of a three year research project. Recording and automatic processing of spoken conversations plays a major role in this solution enabling effective search in a Personal audio archive and fast browsing of conversations. Processing of elderly conversational speech recorded by a distant PDA microphone poses a great challenge. The speech processing flow includes transcription, speaker tracking and combined indexing and search of spoken terms and participating speakers identity extracted from the audio. We present the entire application and individual speech processing components as well as evaluation results of the individual components and of the end-to-end spoken information retrieval solution.
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Speech processing and retrieval in a Personal Memory aid system for the elderly
ICASSP IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, 2011Co-Authors: Alexander Sorin, Michael Kuritzky, Yael Erez, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Hagai Aronowitz, Orith Toledo-ronen, Ron Hoory, Jonathan Mamou, Abhinav SethyAbstract:The paper presents a new application of automatic speech processing in the Ambient Assisted Living area, developed in the course of a three year research project. Recording and automatic processing of spoken conversations plays a major role in this solution enabling effective search in a Personal audio archive and fast browsing of conversations. Processing of elderly conversational speech recorded by a distant PDA microphone poses a great challenge. The speech processing flow includes transcription, speaker tracking and combined indexing and search of spoken terms and participating speakers identity extracted from the audio. We present the entire application and individual speech processing components as well as evaluation results of the individual components and of the end-to-end spoken information retrieval solution.
Sandra E Black - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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reconstructing the past Personal Memory technologies are not just Personal and not just for Memory
Human-Computer Interaction, 2012Co-Authors: Masashi Cretenishihata, Ronald M Baecker, Michael Massimi, Deborah Ptak, Rachelle Campigotto, Liam D Kaufman, Adam M Brickman, Gary R Turner, Joshua R Steinerman, Sandra E BlackAbstract:Research has shown that Personal Memory technologies are a promising way to address the needs of older adults with Memory impairments. In this article, we review three recently completed studies that evaluated technologies for Personal memories intended for persons with Alzheimer's disease (AD) or mild cognitive impairment (MCI). In the first study, we worked with 12 participants with AD or MCI and their families to construct DVD-based Multimedia Biographies that depicted prominent events, people, and places from the participant's past. We then evaluated over a period of 6 months psychosocial effects that viewing the biographies had on the participants and their family members. These effects included stimulating reminiscence of past events, triggering predominantly positive emotions of happiness and occasional moments of sadness, and engaging conversations with family members. In our second study, we designed a home-based ambient display that allowed a man with AD to similarly review his past life, in com...
Andrei Voinikonis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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KiVS - Modeling a Mobile Memory Aid System
Kommunikation in Verteilten Systemen (KiVS), 2020Co-Authors: Hendrik Schulze, Andrei Voinikonis, Thomas Hoffmann, Klaus IrmscherAbstract:The electronic Memory aid system MEMOS was developed at Leipzig University to support patients with Memory disturbances. Starting from this application background MEMOS is designed as a distributed system where a central server component controls a special handheld computer, the Personal Memory Assistant (PMA), over a GSM or a GPRS cellular phone network. To guarantee a wide flexibility and adaptability of the system to concrete deployment scenario the structuring of the information which is generated by the system and processed by the PMA is an essential component of MEMOS. This paper describes the modeling of the central data structures and the consequences to the system architecture.
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distributed processing of reminding tasks within the mobile Memory aid system memos
Ubiquitous Computing, 2005Co-Authors: Andrei Voinikonis, Klaus Irmscher, Hendrik SchulzeAbstract:The mobile extensible Memory and orientation system (MEMOS) is a nomadic computing system designed to support patients with disturbances in the prospective Memory. The system consists of two parts which are loosely connected via general packet radio service (GPRS): a mobile electronic device [Personal Memory assistant (PMA)] to remind the patient of important tasks and a base station that coordinates the activities of caregivers and notifies them about the result of the task execution. A major requirement of MEMOS is the autonomous operation of the PMA. This is accomplished by avoiding mobile transactions, the specification of temporal aspects in the task description, introduction of different states for tasks of the PMA and the base station and by splitting task and result management. Special extensible markup language (XML) based languages were developed for data exchange between the base station and the PMA to reflect the temporal aspects of the tasks and for logging the results of task execution.
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UMICS - Distributed task processing within the mobile Memory aid system MEMOS
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2004Co-Authors: Andrei Voinikonis, Klaus Irmscher, Hendrik SchulzeAbstract:MEMOS is a nomadic computing system to support patients with disturbances in the prospective Memory. The system consists of two parts which are loosely connected via GPRS: a mobile electronic device (Personal Memory Assistant – PMA) to remind the patient of important tasks and a Base Station that coordinates the activities of caregivers and notifies them about the result of the task execution. A major requirement of MEMOS is the autonomous operation of the PMA. This is accomplished by avoiding mobile transactions, the specification of temporal aspects in the task description, introduction of different states for tasks of the PMA and the Base Station, and by splitting task and result management. Special XML based languages were developed for data exchange between Base Station and PMA to reflect the temporal aspects of the tasks and for logging the results of task execution.
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modeling a mobile Memory aid system
Kommunikation in Verteilten Systemen, 2003Co-Authors: Hendrik Schulze, Andrei Voinikonis, Thomas Hoffmann, Klaus IrmscherAbstract:The electronic Memory aid system MEMOS was developed at Leipzig University to support patients with Memory disturbances. Starting from this application background MEMOS is designed as a distributed system where a central server component controls a special handheld computer, the Personal Memory Assistant (PMA), over a GSM or a GPRS cellular phone network. To guarantee a wide flexibility and adaptability of the system to concrete deployment scenario the structuring of the information which is generated by the system and processed by the PMA is an essential component of MEMOS. This paper describes the modeling of the central data structures and the consequences to the system architecture.
