Enabling the Generation, Preservation & Use of Records and Memories of Everyday Life

Abstract

Our daily lives provide us with a great deal of records and memories that we want to access at some point in the future. As a result, we often spend our time and effort trying to preserve much of these experiences. To assist in the process, automated capture and access applications attempt to relieve humans of the burden of manually documenting these experiences. To allow application developers to build such applications more easily, we have developed INCA, an infrastructure for capture and access applications. In this paper, we show how this infrastructure can facilitate the construction of these applications, and demonstrate its use through the development of three sample applications.