Abstract
An important aspect of personal information management (PIM) is the support of our prospective memory, that is, the memory of things to do in future. In particular, calendar-tools or todo-lists help us to keep track of plans and intended actions. Their pro-active capabilities to remind users in appropriate contexts remain limited. To achieve context-dependent and dynamic reminders, this work presents a (1) unifying semantic of various types of activities that allows for aggregation; and (2) a prospective memory formalization. Finally, we introduce the theoretical concept of alert-surfaces to enable context dependent reminders.
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Calendars in this context refer to the paper or digital calendar-tools, and are not to be confused with calendar-systems, such as the Gregorian- or the Islamic-calendar.
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For the task definitions Haskell’s record syntax is used, meaning that the expression in front of the ‘::’ depicts a function returning a value of type x, with x being the type behind ‘::’.
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For the sake of simplicity errands are viewed as mere obligations to acquire objects.
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Abdalla, A., Frank, A.U. (2014). Designing Spatio-Temporal PIM Tools for Prospective Memory Support. In: Liu, C. (eds) Principle and Application Progress in Location-Based Services. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04028-8_16
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