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Operating Systems of the 90s and Beyond pp 261–272Cite as

Towards a human memory prosthesis

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The HMP project sets out to discover if computer systems can aid human recall. The experiment will take many months to complete. There are many difficult challenges ahead. These include: discovering what information users would benefit from being able to recall; designing and building a multi-media distributed system that is sufficiently robust to support our application; designing a low-intensity user-interface for the HMP; improving the accuracy of our analysers; and most importantly, devising acceptable techniques for evaluating the system.

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    Michael G. Lamming

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Arthur Karshmer Jürgen Nehmer

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Lamming, M.G. (1991). Towards a human memory prosthesis. In: Karshmer, A., Nehmer, J. (eds) Operating Systems of the 90s and Beyond. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 563. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0024556

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