Experiencing SenseCam: a case study interview exploring seven years living with a wearable camera

This paper presents the findings from an interview with CG, an individual who has worn an automated camera, the SenseCam, every day for the past seven years. Of interest to the study were the participant’s day-to-day experiences wearing the camera and whether these had changed since first wearing the camera. The findings presented outline the effect that wearing the camera has on his self-identity, relationships and interactions with people in the public. Issues relating to data capture, transfer and retrieval of lifelog images are also identified. These experiences inform us of the long-term effects of digital life capture and how lifelogging could progress in the future

ShareDay:A memory enhancing lifelogging system based on group sharing

Lifelogging is the automatic capture of daily activities using environmental and wearable sensors such as MobilePhone/SenseCam. Lifelogging produces enormous data collections that present many organization and retrieval challenges, including semantic analysis, visualization and motivating users of different ages and technology experience to lifelog. In this paper, we present a new generation of lifelogging system to support reminiscence through incorporating event segmentation and group sharing

Investigating older and younger peoples’ motivations for lifelogging with wearable cameras

People have a natural tendency to collect things about themselves, their experiences and their shared experiences with people important to them, especially family. Similar to traditional objects such as photographs, lifelogs have been shown to support reminiscence. A lifelog is a digital archive of a person’s experiences and activities and lifelog devices such as wearable cameras can automatically and continuously record events throughout a whole day. We were interested in investigating what would motivate people to lifelog. Due to the importance of shared family reminiscence between family members we focused our study on comparing shared or personal motivations with ten older and ten younger family members. We found from our results that both older and younger adults were more likely to lifelog for the purposes of information sharing and that reviewing lifelog images supported family reminiscence, reflection and story-telling. Based on these findings, recommendations are made for the design of a novel intergenerational family lifelog system

Sharing as a motivation for lifelogging

With advances in digital devices and web applications it has never been easier to capture and share information with other people. Lifelogging devices such as the SenseCam automatically capture thousands of images per day. Sharing images captured from such a device would provide family and friends with a glimpse of life from the wearer’s perspective. In this study we examined whether the practice of sharing lifelog images would impact the wearer’s lifelogging behaviour. Ten family pairs participated in this study; ten older adults paired with ten younger adults. Each family member was asked to wear a SenseCam over the period of two weeks. The participants were given a SenseCam and a touch screen computer to upload their images. On one of these weeks the participants were advised to capture images for their own personal use and on the other week they were asked to share their images with other people. The participants were asked to fill out a questionnaire at the end of each week relating to their experiences using the SenseCam and also their interactions with the lifelog images. Interactions using the SenseCam browser were also automatically recorded. We analyse the recorded data and user feedback with a focus on the older and younger participants’ frequency of data collection/image browsing and contrast between sharing and non-sharing weeks

Lifelogging in the home: evaluating a family SenseCam browser

Automatically capturing images through wearable lifelog devices can allow us to create rich collections depicting our experiences. These collections can be used to support story-telling and reminiscence, either of personal experiences or shared experiences. We propose that a family lifelog browser situated in the home would encourage family sharing. We developed a prototype of the system which we evaluated for use and usability in a home environment with a family consisting of older and younger adult

ShareDay: A new lifelogging brower system for group sharing

SenseCam is a small lightweight wearable camera used to passively capture photos and other sensor data(temperature, accelerometer, magnitude, infrared ray etc.) mainly for the use of reminiscence. But big amount of SenseCam data analysis and constructing for better application in human daily life is a big challenge. In this paper, we rep- resent a new generation of personal life log application system for group sharing based on user study. Dierent from similar lifelogging browsers, our system incorporate event segmentation and group sharing

Technology use in everyday life: Implications for designing for older users

This study examines the experience and attitudes of older adults towards technology and how they compare with younger age groups. Two hundred and thirty seven participants completed an extensive questionnaire exploring their daily lifestyle, use of technology, attitudes towards technology, and perceived difficulty of household devices. The main findings from the study were; (1) there was a strong motivation to learn or to continue learning to use computers by the older group; (2) social connectedness influenced how the older group used or would like to use technology and also why some preferred not to use it; and finally (3) there was an age-related increase in perceived difficulty for many household devices, however some devices maintained intergenerational usability. These finding can be used to inform the design of future intergenerational household technologies