Microsoft SenseCam
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Microsoft's SenseCam is a sub-project of MyLifeBits, a lifetime storage database. It was primarily created by Lindsay Williams. Its researchers also include Steve Hodges and Ken Woods.
This wearable camera will contribute to an easier way of collecting and indexing one’s daily experiences by unobtrusively taking photographs whenever the internal sensor is triggered by a change in temperature, movement, or lighting. In addition, the trigger can be disabled and set to go snap photos in a timer mode. The SenseCam is also equipped with an accelerometer, which will stabilize images so as to reduce blurriness. The camera can be worn around the neck or attached to one's belt or pocket.
The photos represent almost every experience of its wearer's day. They are taken via a wide-angle "fish-eye" lens in order to capture a point-of-view shot by displaying a 180 degree scene. The SenseCam uses a FLASH memory, which has the means to store upwards of 2,000 photos per day as a .jpg file. These files can then be uploaded and automatically formatted into a filmstrip. These daily movies will be easily reviewed as well as searched, for each photo will have stored the exact time taken. According to Steve Hodges of Microsoft Research, it will play back at the extremely efficient speed of twenty-five frames per second, termed Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP), replaying one's day in as little as 80 seconds.[1]
[edit] Projections for the SenseCam
Microsoft Research has contributed a device that will aid lifeloggers among several other potential users. Although first developed to help find misplaced car keys, the camera is currently being tested to aid those suffering mer serious cognitive memory loss. The SenseCam produces images which are very similar to one's memory, particularly episodic memory, which is usually in the form of visual imagery.[2] By reviewing the day's filmstrip, victims of Alzheimer’s, amnesia, and other memory impairments could retrieve lost memories with ease.
Microsoft Research is currently testing internal audio level detection and audio recording for the SenseCam. This will further the daily database enhancing the photos to be more "movie-like" in that they contain both visual and audio features. The research team is also exploring the potential of including a sensor that will monitor the wearer's heart-rate, body temperature, and other physiological changes along with an Electrocardiogram recorder when capturing pictures.
Other possible application include using the camera's records for ethnographic studies in social phenomena, monitoring food intake, and assessing an environment's accessibility for the handicapped.[3]
[edit] Further reading
“DejaView: CamWear.” Feb. 2007. <http://dejaview.no-ip.org/>.
Hodges, Steve. “Microsoft Research Projects: SenseCam.” Microsoft Research. 26 Feb. 2006 <http://research.microsoft.com/sendev/projects/sensecam/>.
Hodges, Steve. “SenseCam: A Retrospective Memory Aid.” Microsoft Research, Cambridge. (2006) 1-17.
Williams, Lindsey. "SenseCam Applications." Microsoft Research. 26 Feb. 2006 <http://research.microsoft.com/sendev/projects/sensecam/applications.aspx>.
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