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Steve Hodges, Gavin Smyth, and Ken Woodberry receive UbiComp 2016’s 10-year Impact Award
Steve Hodges, Gavin Smyth, and Ken Woodberry of Microsoft’s research lab in Cambridge, UK, received the UbiComp 2016 10-year Impact Award for the paper “SenseCam: A Retrospective Memory Aid.” The paper presents a wearable camera, SenseCam, that takes photos automatically, capturing…
In the news | BBC News
Life with a wearable camera
The best thing about the Autographer is the software that comes with it, which allows you to store and organise the vast amount of pictures you generate by date and location and create time-lapse movies.
In the news | New Atlas
Wearable cameras – the future of fitness monitoring?
The SenseCam (commercially available as the Vicon Revue) is worn on a lanyard around the neck and is designed as a therapeutic device, to help people who have memory problems.
In the news | BBC News
Interview with Tim Regan, Steve Hodges and Gordon Bell
BBC's Digital Planet interview with the researchers on logging your life with new technologies.
In the news | ZDNet
Autographer wearable camera will save your life – or track your staff
OMG has announced Autographer, a new life-logging camera that is basically an up-to-date version of the SenseCam invented by Lyndsay Williams at Microsoft Research.
In the news | NewScientist
Total recall: Diary of a lifelogger
It sounds like the ultimate vanity project, but a camera that records your every moment could make you happier and healthier.
In the news | Scientifc American
Photographic Memory: Wearable Cam Could Help Patients Stave Off Effects of Impaired Recall
Nana technology could compensate for failing memories among people with Alzheimer's disease, amnesia and other difficulties by taking over some of the brain work
SenseCam Documents Daily Life for Patients with Memory Loss
Human memory is all too fallible. We all misplace items or forget to run an errand occasionally; our memories of specific events can fade with time as well. But severe memory issues can have a devastating impact on quality of…
Total Recall: How to Have It All
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research In September, pioneering computer-science researcher Gordon Bell and his Microsoft Research colleague Jim Gemmell published Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything, a book that summarizes nearly a decade of an…