While I was working at PARC in Palo Alto, I went to the monthly BayCHI meetings where they invite speakers from industry and academia to talk about their work. Now, that I'm back in Toronto, there is a TorCHI group. Tonight, Khai Truong who is Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Toronto is going to talk about Designing & Evaluating a Short-Term Audio-Based Reminder Application.
For those who don't know Khai, he was a PhD student under Gregory Abowd at Georgia Tech, who is one of the leading people that I know in the ubiquitous computing research area. University of Toronto is really lucky to have Khai to add to the Computer Science department! Also, Khai is on my PhD committee! Khai is a really great guy, and he's teaching a course this term in Topics in Ubiquitous Computing.
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I just attended Khai's talk, I felt that having a reminder audio-based application certainly applies to me sometimes when I want to remember what I said or did in the past. I even forget what I did like 1 hour ago! When I was recording audio while I was in Las Vegas, or in Copenhagen, I felt that it was so easy to record, I just pressed the button on the iPod iTalk and started talking. It was natural. I never really reviewed the audio though until after I downloaded the audio and started to process it and edit it.
His work is related to Gordon Bell's work at Microsoft Research called MyLifeBits which is a research project to record all the media, pictures, audio, video of your entire life, and then create a way for looking at it and searching for some information. Here's a conversation with Gordon Bell. Gordon Bell is one of the founders of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View which I visited over the past summer during my PARC summer internship. He's an old guy but still active in computers!
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