Prospective Memory (possible conceptual framework)

Prospective memory may be defined as remembering to remember (Winograd, 1988). It differs from retrospective memory, where passed actions, events, or knowledge are remembered. (Memories with a purpose!)

Prospective memory consists of recalling an action or an intention. This recall is triggered by either a stimulus or 'cue' or a time. For example, meeting a friend (the cue) might remind you to pass on a message (the intention). A time-based example would be remembering to watch TV at 8pm, or recalling a meeting or appointment at a certain time.

- The bugs could be used to annotate the physical and "mental" environment. For example, I could decide to associate a certain movement, color and sound with a bug, and then have that state randomly brought up to remind me of something else: a past event or something to be done.

- This way bugs could exchange or merge states with other bugs.

- When all bugs are placed over a common substrate they form an aesthetic overview of prospective memories. Here we can bridge the gap between personal and social prospective memories; what we want as individuals or as a group.

- Our sense of agency is largely dependent on how we manage our prospective memory