Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

This paper explores the relationship between human activity and remindings. W e argue that the type of activity in which a person is engaged influences the kinds of features that trigger remindings, and, conversely, that remindings can change situated behavior over time. W e argue further that the types of indices used in memory are not uniform, but depend upon the nature of the task that a person is engaged in as well as his history of interaction with the world.