Microsoft Research SenseCam

Publications and Presentations

Publications from Microsoft Research

Berry, E., Hampshire, A, Rowe, J., Hodges, S., Kapur, N., Watson, P., Browne, G., Smyth, G., Wood, K. and Owen, A. The neural basis of effective memory therapy in a patient with limbic encephalitis. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry with Practical Neurology, 2009.
Berry, E., Kapur, N., Williams, L., Hodges, S., Watson, P., Smyth, G., Srinivasan, J., Smith, R., Wilson, B. and Wood, K. The use of a wearable camera, SenseCam, as a pictorial diary to improve autobiographical memory in a patient with limbic encephalitis. Special issue of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation 2007, 17 (4/5), 582-681, “Encephalitis: Assessment and Rehabilitation Across the Lifespan (Special Issue of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation)”. ISBN: 978-1-84169-836-6.
Harper, R., Randall, D., Smyth, N., Evans, C., Heledd. L. and Moore. R. Thanks for the Memory. HCI 2007. (Best paper award.)
Sellen, A., Fogg, A., Hodges, S. and Wood, K. Do life-logging technologies support memory for the past? An experimental study using SenseCam. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI ’07, Irvine, CA, (2007), 81-90. (Honorable mention, Best of CHI Awards).
Tan, D., Sellen, A., Czerwinski, M., Bell, G., Gemmell, J., Wood, K., Robertson, G., Oliver, N., Berry, E., Hodges, S., and Kapur, N. "Supporting human memory with a personal digital lifetime store". In J. Teevan and W. Jones (Eds.), Personal Information Management: Challenges and Opportunities, University of Washington Press, 2007.
Berry, E., Conway, M., Moulin, C., Williams, H., Hodges, S., Williams, L., Wood, K. & Smith, G. (2006). Stimulating episodic memory: Initial explorations using SenseCam. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society. 47th Annual Meeting, 11, 56-57. Oxford University Press.
Steve Hodges, Lyndsay Williams, Emma Berry, Shahram Izadi, James Srinivasan, Alex Butler, Gavin Smyth, Narinder Kapur and Ken Wood, “SenseCam: a Retrospective Memory Aid” In Dourish and A. Friday (Eds.): Ubicomp 2006, LNCS 4206, pp. 177 – 193, 2006. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.
Jim Gemmell, Lyndsay Williams, Ken Wood, Roger Lueder, Gordon Bell, "Passive Capture and Ensuing Issues for a Personal Lifetime Store", Proceedings of the the 1st ACM workshop on continuous archival and retrieval of personal experiences New York, USA October 2004.
Wood, K., Fleck, R. & Williams, L (2004) Playing with SenseCam. Proceedings of Playing with Sensors: Exploring the boundaries of sensing for playful ubiquitous computing (W3), UbiComp 2004, Nottingham, Uk.

Publications featuring SenseCam by Researchers outside of Microsoft

Byrne D, Doherty A.R., Snoek C.G.M., Jones G.F., and Smeaton A.F. Validating the Detection of Everyday Concepts in Visual Lifelogs. SAMT 2008 – 3rd International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies, Koblenz, Germany, 3-5 December 2008.
Doherty A.R, Ó Conaire C, Blighe M, Smeaton A.F, and O’Connor N. Combining Image Descriptors to Effectively Retrieve Events from Visual Lifelogs. MIR 2008 – ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval, Vancouver, Canada, 30-31 October 2008.
Bowen, M. An investigation of the therapeutic efficacy of SenseCam as an autobiographical memory aid in a patient with temporal lobe amnesia. University of Exeter MSc project. October 2008.
Byrne D, Doherty A.R, Smeaton A.F, Kumpulainen S and Jarvelin K. The SenseCam as a Tool for Task Observation. HCI 2008 – 22nd BCS HCI Group Conference, Liverpool, U.K., 1-5 September 2008.
Lee H, Smeaton A.F, O’Connor N, Jones G, Blighe M, Byrne D, Doherty A.R, and Gurrin G. Constructing a SenseCam Visual Diary as a Media Process. Multimedia Systems Journal, Special Issue on Canonical Processes of Media Production, (in press) 2008.
Blighe M, Doherty A.R, Smeaton A.F and O’Connor N. Keyframe Detection in Visual Lifelogs. PETRA 2008 – 1st International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, Athens, Greece, 15-19 July 2008.
Doherty A.R., Byrne D, Smeaton A.F., Jones G.J.F. and Hughes M. Investigating Keyframe Selection Methods in the Novel Domain of Passively Captured Visual Lifelogs. CIVR 2008 – ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, Niagara Falls, Canada, 7-9 July 2008.
Blighe M and O’Connor N. MyPlaces: Detecting Important Settings in a Visual Diary. CIVR 2008 – ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, Niagara Falls, Canada, 7-9 July 2008.
Blighe M, Sav S, Lee H, and O’Connor N. Mo Músaem Fíorúil: A Web-based Search and Information Service for Museum Visitors. ICIAR 2008 –International Conference on Image Analysis and REcognition, Povoa de Varzim, Portugal, 25-27 June 2008.
Doherty A.R. and Smeaton A.F. Combining Face Detection and Novelty to Identify Important Events in a Visual LifeLog. CIT 2008 – IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, Workshop on Image- and Video-based Pattern Analysis and Applications, Sydney, Australia, 8-11 July 2008.
Doherty A.R. and Smeaton A.F. Automatically Segmenting Lifelog Data Into Events. WIAMIS 2008 - 9th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services, Klagenfurt, Austria, 7-9 May 2008.
Blighe M, O'Connor N, Rehatschek H and Kienast G. Identifying Different Settings in a Visual Diary. WIAMIS 2008 - 9th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services, Klagenfurt, Austria, 7-9 May 2008.
Fuller M, Kelly L and Jones G. Applying Contextual Memory Cues for Retrieval from Personal Information Archives. PIM 2008 - Proceedings of Personal Information Management, Workshop at CHI 2008, Florence, Italy, 5-6 April 2008.
Gurrin C, Smeaton A.F, Byrne D, O'Hare N, Jones G and O'Connor N. An Examination of a Large Visual Lifelog. AIRS 2008 - Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, Harbin, China, 16-18 January 2008.
Deborah Barreau, Abe Crystal, Jane Greenberg, Anuj Sharma, Michael Conway, John Oberlin, Michael Shoffner and Stephen Seiberling. Augmenting Memory for Student Learning: Designing a Context-Aware Capture System for Biology Education, Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Volume 43, Issue 1, Pages 251–251, October 2007.
Byrne D, Lavelle B, Doherty A, Jones G and Smeaton A.F. Using Bluetooth and GPS Metadata to Measure Event Similarity in SenseCam Images. Accepted for presentation at IMAI'07 - 5th International Conference on Intelligent Multimedia and Ambient Intelligence, Salt Lake City, Utah, 18-24 July, 2007.
Doherty A, Smeaton A.F, Lee K, and Ellis D. Multimodal Segmentation of Lifelog Data. Accepted for presentation at 8th RIAO Conference - Large-Scale Semantic Access to Content (Text, Image, Video and Sound), Pittsburgh, PA, 30 May - 1 June, 2007.
Matthew L. Lee and Anind K. Dey, Providing good memory cues for people with episodic memory impairment, ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Assistive Technologies Archive, Proceedings of the 9th international ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 2007.
Byrne, D. SenseCam Flow Visualisation for LifeLog Image Browsing. BCS IRSG Informer, Spring Issue (No. 22).
Kelly L. The Information Retrieval Challenge of Human Digital Memories. BCS IRSG Symposium: Future Directions in Information Access 2007, Glasgow, Scotland, 28-29 August 2007. (pdf)
O'Conaire C, O'Connor N, Smeaton A.F. and Jones G. Organising a daily Visual Diary Using Multi-Feature Clustering. SPIE Electronic Imaging - Multimedia Content Access: Algorithms and Systems (EI121), San Jose, CA, 28 January - 1 February 2007.
Smeaton A.F, O'Connor N, Jones G, Gaughan G, Lee H and Gurrin C. SenseCam Visual Diaries Generating Memories for life. Poster presented at the Memories for Life Colloquium 2006, British Library Conference Centre, London, U.K., 12 December 2006. Memories For Life Website. (poster)
Smeaton A.F, Diamond D and Smyth B. Computing and Material Sciences for LifeLogging. Presented at the Memories for Life Network Workshop 2006, British Library Conference Centre, London, U.K., 11 December 2006.
Smeaton A.F., Content Vs. Context For Multimedia Semantics: The Case of SenseCam Image Structuring. SAMT 2006 - Proceedings of The First International Conference on Semantics And Digital Media Technology. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Athens, Greece, 6-8 December 2006.
Fleck, R & Fitzpatrick, G., (2006). Supporting reflection with passive image capture. Supplementary proceedings of COOP'06, Carry-le-Rouet, France. pp.41-48.
Hyowon Lee, Alan F. Smeaton, Noel E. O'Connor and Gareth J.F. Jones. Adaptive Visual Summary of LifeLog Photos for Personal Information Management. AIR 2006 - First International Workshop on Adaptive Information Retrieval, Glasgow, U.K., 14 October 2006. (poster)
A. Tjoa, A. Andjomshoaa, S. Karim. Exploiting SenseCam for Helping the Blind in Business Negotiations, Computers Helping People with Special Needs, Springer, p. 1147 – 1154, 2006.
Blighe M, Le Borgne H, O'Connor N, Smeaton A.F and Jones G. Exploiting Context Information to aid Landmark Detection in SenseCam Images. ECHISE 2006 - 2nd International Workshop on Exploiting Context Histories in Smart Environments - Infrastructures and Design, 8th International Conference of Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2006), Orange County, CA, 17-21 September 2006.
Seungwon Yang, Ben Congleton, George Luc, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, Edward A. Fox, Demonstrating the use of a SenseCam in two domains, International Conference on Digital Libraries archive, Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, 2006.
Cherry, S. Total recall life recording software, IEEE Spectrum, volume 42, pp24-30, November 2005.
Fleck, R. Exploring SenseCam to inform the design of image capture and replay devices for supporting reflection In E. Martinez-Miron and D. Brewster (Eds) Advancing the potential for communication, learning and interaction, 8th Human Centred Technology Postgraduate Workshop, Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, 2005.

Presentations from Microsoft

3rd Satellite Symposium on Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, Liechtenstein, July 2006, SenseCam as an aid for autobiographical memory in an amnesic patient & other clinical applications, Emma Berry
Memories for Life Colloquium: the future of our pasts, British Library Conference Centre, London, December 2006, The use of a wearable camera, SenseCam, as a pictorial diary to improve autobiographical memory in a patient with severe memory impairment, Emma Berry
British Psychological Society Annual Conference 2007, York, March 2007, Using SenseCam, a wearable camera, to alleviate autobiographical memory loss, Emma Berry
Festival of International Conferences on Caregiving, Disability, Aging and Technology, Toronto, June 2007, Stimulating Episodic Memory Using SenseCam (Poster), Georgina Browne
4th Satellite Symposium on Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, San Sebastian, July 2007, SenseCam & memory rehabilitation, Emma Berry
British Psychological Society National PSIGE Conference – Special Interest Group for Psychologists working with Older People, Nottingham, July 2007, SenseCam & memory rehabilitation, Georgina Browne
Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine: Annual Scientific Meeting 2007, Cardiff, September, SenseCam: A wearable camera can help improve autobiographical memory in patients with Alzheimer’s disease, Georgina Browne
Workshop on Intelligent Systems for Assisted Cognition, Rochester, New York, October 2007, The role of SenseCam in memory rehabilitation, Emma Berry & Georgina Browne

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