Presenting a speech-based mobile reminder system

Aging is often accompanied by various forms of physical and cognitive decline. In this paper, we present a mobile guide that is aimed at people suffering from this cognitive decline – a memory aid at home and in mobile settings – called HERMES. A mobile guide allows the user to record events for later re-call (episodic memory) as well as capture information about future events and remind the user about when he or she might forget these otherwise (prospective memory). In this paper, we focus on the mobile environment of the technology. The mobile guide is similar to a memo-recorder: the PDA or mobile phone records speech both at home and in other environments. At a home server, the captured speech data is processed into text and information is extracted from the speech data and entered in the user’s calendar. Depending on how the user wants to be remembered, the system provides the user with a reminder at a certain time or at a certain place