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Communicating with your E-memory: finding and refinding in personal lifelogs

Chen, Yi (2013) Communicating with your E-memory: finding and refinding in personal lifelogs. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Abstract
The rapid development of technology enables the digital capture and storage of our life experiences in an “E-Memory” (electronic–memory) or personal lifelog (PLL). This offers the potential for people to store the details of their life in a permanent archive, so that the information is still available even when its physical existence has vanished and when memory traces of it have faded away. A major challenge for PLLs is enabling people to access information when it is needed. Many people may also want to share or transfer some of their memory to their friends and descendants, so that their experiences can be appreciated and their knowledge can be kept even after they have passed away. This thesis further explores people’s potential needs from their own PLLs, discuss the possible methods people may use and potential problems that they may encounter while accessing their PLLs, and hypothesize that better support of users’ own memory can provide better user experience and improved efficiency for accessing their E-memories (or PLLs). As part of a larger project, three lifeloggers collected their own prototype lifelog collection for about 20 months’ time. To complete this study, the author developed a prototype PLL system, called the iCLIPS Lifelog Archive Browser (LAB), based on the author’s theoretical exploration and empirical studies, and evaluated it using our prototype lifelog collections through a user study with the three lifeloggers. The results of this study provide promising evidence which support the hypothesis. The end of this thesis also discusses the issues that the lifeloggers encountered in using their lifelogs and future technologies that are desirable based the studies in this thesis.
Metadata
Item Type:Thesis (PhD)
Date of Award:November 2013
Refereed:No
Supervisor(s):Jones, Gareth J.F.
Uncontrolled Keywords:“E-Memory” (electronic–memory); Personal Lifelog (PLL)
Subjects:Computer Science > Lifelog
Computer Science > Interactive computer systems
Computer Science > Information storage and retrieval systems
Computer Science > Information retrieval
DCU Faculties and Centres:Research Initiatives and Centres > Centre for Digital Video Processing (CDVP)
Research Initiatives and Centres > Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL)
DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. View License
Funders:Science Foundation Ireland
ID Code:19411
Deposited On:26 Nov 2013 16:03 by Gareth Jones . Last Modified 19 Jul 2018 15:02
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