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MemoClip: A location-based remembrance appliance

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Reminder tools allow users to associate information with time-based alarms. However, in many cases space rather than time may be appropriate to trigger reminders. We present a wearable artifact, the MemoClip (a small clip), which reminds the user of things they should do depending onwhere they are. A user can associate information to be remembered with a description of a location, download it onto the MemoClip, and then gets notified accordingly when entering the selected location.

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  1. Telecooperation Office (TecO), University of Karlsruhe, Vincenz-Prießnitz-Str. 1, D-76131, Karlsruhe, Germany

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Beigl, M. MemoClip: A location-based remembrance appliance. Personal Technologies 4, 230–233 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02391564

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