The 3rd ACM Workshop on

Capture, Archival and Retrieval of Personal Experiences (CARPE 2006)
October 27, 2006, Santa Barbara, California, USA
http://mase.itc.nagoya-u.ac.jp/CARPE2006/

In conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2006 (http://www.mmdb.ece.ucsb.edu/acmmm06/)
Workshop Chair
Kenji Mase, Nagoya U., Japan

Program Committee
Kiyoharu Aizawa, U. Tokyo, Japan
Steven Drucker, Microsoft Research, USA
Jim Gemmell, Microsoft Research, USA
Kai Li, Princeton U., USA
Bob Mayo, HP Labs, USA
Maurice Mulvenna, U. Ulster, UK
Alex Pentland, MIT,USA
Ehud Reiter, University of Aberdeen, UK
Cyrus Shahabi, U. Southern California, USAYasuyuki Sumi, Kyoto Univ., JapanHari Sundaram, Arizona State U., USAKen Wood, Microsoft Research, UKZhiwen Yu, Nagoya Univ., JapanLei Zhang, Microsoft Research, China

Important Dates (New)
Abstract submission deadline: July 10
Full paper submission deadline: July 14
Acceptance notification: July 31
Camera-ready deadline: August 10Submission
Technical papers may be up to 12 pages inlength, while demonstration papers may beup to 6 pages. All papers must follow
standard ACM style guidelines and must besubmitted in PDF format.
Thesubmissionwebsiteis:
https://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/CARPE_2006/
Please send any submission questions to:carpe2006@arch.itc.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Previous CARPE
CARPE 2005:
http://research.microsoft.com/CARPE2005/
CARPE 2004:
http://research.microsoft.com/CARPE2004/

Personal storage of all one’s media throughout a lifetime has been desired and discussed
since at least 1945, when Vannevar Bush published As We May Think, positing the“Memex” device “in which an individual stores all his books, records, andcommunications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding
speed and flexibility.” His vision was astonishingly broad for the time, including full-text
search, annotations, hyperlinks, virtually unlimited storage and even stereo cameras
mounted on eyeglasses. Storage, sensor, and computing technology have progressed today
to the point of making Memex feasible and even affordable. Indeed, we can now lookbeyond Memex at new possibilities. In particular, while media capture has typically beensparse throughout a lifetime, we can now consider continuous archival and retrieval of all
media relating to personal experiences.
The CARPE research community was launched with the first ACM CARPE Workshop onOctober 15, 2004. The workshop was a sell-out. The response to the workshop wasoverwhelmingly positive, and has led to an IEEE Multimedia special issue on CARPE.
The second CARPE meeting was held on November 11, 2005 in conduction with ACM
Multimedia Conference again in Singapore. We have changed the word “continuous” usedin the first workshop to “capture” in the title of the second workshop. We wanted toinclude research that was not completely continuous in nature, but still made an important
contribution to the study of lifelong experience capture. Interest in this topic has also been
demonstrated by the success of the “Memory and Sharing of Experiences” workshop at
Pervasive 04. Other interest in the area is evidenced by the DARPA Assist program andthe UK Memories for Life grand challenge proposal.
Nagoya University’s COE program on Intelligent Media Integration will be a sponsor ofthe workshop.
Aim and workshop topics:
The aim of this one-day workshop is to foster discussion on issues related to capture,archival and retrieval of personal experiences. We invite regular and position papers
as well as demonstrations (accompanied by descriptive papers) on relevant topics,including:• Capture/sensors (e.g., scanning, wearable, embedded, different kinds ofsensors, robotic assistance), experiential sampling.
• Data storage, management, organization and retrieval• Insight: content analysis and data mining• User interface issues, including: visualization, authoring, story-telling,
annotation• Applications: e.g., personal museum, health-support, childcare, researchtools, meeting capture• Security, privacy, and legal issues