An overview of Lifelogging after 9 years for a Quantified Self Audience. Most of the work highlighted here is from the Insight Centre for Data Analytics & Dublin City University.

1. A 15 MILLION IMAGE LIFELOG
THOUGHTS & EXPERIENCES
Cathal Gurrin - @cathal
Dublin City University & Insight Centre for Data Analytics
Quantified Self 2015
(Expo) 20 June 2015

2. Using mobile/wearable devices and information
loggers to automatically record everything you
see, hear, learn and experience. Creates a
complete and accurate record of an
individual - a Lifelog.
First generation devices are on the market now
and people have begun to do this.
Archived Lifetimes

3. Private Archive
The Internet of Me
Life Enriching Value
A personal search engine
for life experience
SIGNIFICANT POTENTIAL

4. Long-term, my goal is to develop a surrogate memory. A
private digital archive that operates in synergy with your own
memory is always available to assist you.

5. Lifelogging has been around for decades.
1920
Today
Dymaxion
Chronofile
Memex
1950
2000
Steve
Mann
MyLifeBits
First Market
Devices

6. HARDWARE & SENSORS

7. Ideally we need a sensor that can record everything
experience, in many dimensions…

8. VISUAL LOGGING

9. Easy to do audio logging also,
but people don’t like it…
What about touch, taste, smell?

10. OMG Autographer
(2000+ per day)
Narrative Clip
(2000+ per day)
Google Glass
(400 per day)
Vicon Revue
(4500+ per day)
notforsale

11. HOW MUCH DATA?
L i f e l o g g i n g -
P e r s o n a l B i g
Data… from the
F o u n d a t i o n a n d
Trends in Information
Retrieval series. Free
d o w n l o a d , a s k
Google.
$50 per year without video

12. PART OF A LIFELOG - MY LIFELOG
Autographer Panasonic 4K Google Glass
Moves App Google Fit BASIS Watch Strava
RescueTime LoggerMan Camlapse
MyTracks OpenPaths
CameraPhoneInstagram
Media Lifelogging
Activity
EyeAware
Platform
Information Access
SMS Backup
CallRecorderPro
VoiceRecorder
WebServices
Swarm
Location
23&Me EEG Diet
Others
Health
Last.fm
NarrativeClip

13. SOFTWARE
Ideally one integrated platform, but there is none.

14. Reporter App
Reporter &The Annual Reports
Nick Feltron

15. Teemu Arina - Lifelog using Google Calendar

16. Conventional QS style lifelog

17. OMG AutographerViewer software

18. OMG AutographerViewer software

19. Narrative Clip
Event Detection
Sharing
Search
API coming in the
next few months

20. EYEAWARE PLATFORM
Event Segmentation - Concept Filtering

21. CONCEPT FILTERING
VISUAL INSIGHTS USING AI (DEEP LEARNING)

22. EYEAWARE PLATFORM
Multi-sensor mapping for insights

23. EYEAWAREVISUALISATIONS

24. EXTERNAL MEMORY
NEVER FORGET AGAIN / ALZHEIMER’S SUPPORT

25. POPULATION RESEARCH
POPULATION-WIDE ANALYTICS - LOOK FOR LOGOS,OBJECTS.
!
!

26. But who do you trust with your data?

27. LOGGERMAN
SEMANTIC MEMORIES

28. Mouse movements, keystrokes, application windows,
applications run, clipboard, etc… all stored locally.

29. Privacy Awareness - Negative Face Blurring

30. POTENTIAL

31. New Opportunities
• Health - personalised health, new tailored treatments
• Productivity - greater understanding of self, enhanced
knowledge access, enhanced productivity
• Personal - life search engine <— My Focus
• Security - your own security data, self-protection
(sousveillance)
• Societal - more productive and healthy population, a better
understood population
• … and many more …

32. Few devices
Limited software providing rich semantics & effective search
Privacy (lifelogging looks out, QS looks in)
Trust for sharing and storage
However…

33. EXPERIENCES

34. 2006 - 2015

35. EXPERIENCES
• Get data now, you can not get
data retrospectively
• New tools and software will
extract value
• Privacy of the data. It will be a
target for people
• Storage problems.Where to
store it?
• Trust.Who do you trust?
• Few real-world problems
• New insights, more healthy
and active lifestyle, less
computer time
• Increased social interactions
and desire for colour in life
wall.

36. THANKYOU
Cathal Gurrin
@cathal
Any Questions?
L i f e l o g g i n g -
P e r s o n a l B i g
Data… from the
F o u n d a t i o n a n d
Trends in Information
Retrieval series. Free
d o w n l o a d , a s k
Google.