A Support System for Memory Impaired Subjects

In the fields of psychology and physiology there are studies that relate stress to the difficulty of transferring information from short term memory to medium term memory. This difficulty is often the root of a reduction in personal everyday's efficiency as things to do tend to come to mind unordered and unplanned. We claim that this phenomenon could be greatly reduced by providing to the users timely information about which of his planned activities can be efficiently performed in his current environment and position. In this paper we describe a system capable of extracting hints of user needs from the user speech, translate those needs into query to a geographic information systems and provide timely prompt to the user as soon as the user current environment provides to the user the possibility to efficiently perform an action that satisfies one of his needs.