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Faculty Research Seminar Series:
"The Future of Our Pasts: Digital Memories and Lifelogging" |
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4:00 PM-5:00 PM
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Tue, January 20, 2009 |
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Ehrlicher Room, 411 West Hall (in person), 1202 SI North (videocast) |
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Speakers: |
Stephen Whittaker |
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Description: |
Stephen Whittaker is chair in information retrieval at Sheffield University, UK. Previously he worked in industrial research at HP, Lotus/IBM, and AT&T Bell Labs. His research interests are in the theory, design and evaluation of collaborative systems, multimedia retrieval, and personal information management. In the past he has designed and
built many novel HCI and CSCW systems, including one of the first IM clients, a social network-based E-mail client, and various tools for accessing and browsing speech. He is currently working on digital tools that help us remember and share our memories. He was recently elected to the CHI Academy.
In this talk, Whittaker will discuss how recent technical developments have inspired an interest in "digital memories," the repositories for capturing our entire personal history of personal and work related information that will substitute for our fragile "organic" memories. He will review the digital memories vision, briefly present various studies that challenge that vision, and offer an alternative design approach informed by social science. He will describe systems that have been built according to these new principles, highlighting approaches that use social information to to organize and retrieve personal digital memories.
All are invited to attend Whittaker's talk. To promote in-depth
intellectual engagement during the seminar, guests are encouraged to read Whittaker's paper in advance.
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Sponsor: |
School of Information |
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Contact: |
JoAnne Kerr |
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jmkerr@umich.edu |
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