Automatically assisting human memory: a SenseCam browser.

Journal article

SenseCams have many potential applications as tools for lifelogging, including the possibility of use as a memory rehabilitation tool. Given that a SenseCam can log hundreds of thousands of images per year, it is critical that these be presented to the viewer in a manner that supports the aims of memory rehabilitation. In this article we report a software browser constructed with the aim of using the characteristics of memory to organise SenseCam images into a form that makes the wealth of in...

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Authors: Doherty, A; Moulin, C; Smeaton, A

• Journal: Memory (Hove, England)
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 7
• Pages: 785-795
• Publication date: 2011-10-01
• DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2010.509732
• EISSN: 1464-0686
• ISSN: 0965-8211
• Language: English
• Keywords: Photography; Cues; Software; Humans; Automation; Microcomputers; User-Computer Interface; Memory, Episodic; Search Engine; Information Storage and Retrieval; Self-Help Devices; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; Environmental Monitoring; Patient Satisfaction; Mental Recall