Exploiting the Link Between Personal, Augmented
Memories and Ubiquitous User Modeling
Dense logging of a user’s interactions with an intelligent
environment enables the creation of artificial memory structures,
which augment the user’s natural memory. In this article we
discuss the interrelationship between such augmented memories and
ubiquitous user modeling, and the particular benefits of linking both
concepts. On the basis of a prototype implementation, we illustrate
how ubiquitous user modeling contributes to the building of personal,
augmented memories, and discuss how the latter one may enrich
ubiquitous user models and thus grant other applications access to
memory content. We conclude with a discussion of how users may
exploit such hybrid systems to share their personal memories with
other users.