The Memory Glasses project is an attempt to build a wearable, proactive, context-aware memory aid based on wearable sensors. The primary goal of this project is to produce an effective short-term memory aid and reminder system that requires a minimum of user attention. Secondary goals include the development of more effective wearable computing interfaces and the development of a general framework for building context aware wearable and ubiquitous computing applications.
The function of our system is to deliver reminders to the user in a timely, situation-appropriate way, without requiring intervention on the part of the user beyond the initial request to be reminded. In other words, the system behaves like a reliable human secretary that remembers reminder requests and delivers them under appropriate circumstances. Such a system is qualitatively different from a passive reminder system (such as a paper organizer) which records and structures reminder requests but which can not act to acquire the user's attention.