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CLARITY supports SenseCam 2010 workshop at the Guinness Storehouse
13 September 2010
The Second Annual SenseCam Symposium will take place on Thursday 16th and Friday 17th September at the Guinness Storehouse. Supported by CLARITY, Microsoft Research and Vicon, SenseCam 2010 will bring together this inter-disciplinary mix of researchers, clinicians and practitioners who are working with or have an interest in the SenseCam, visual lifelogging and its applications. The symposium will showcase the diverse range of work being carried out using SenseCam.
The SenseCam, now the Vicon Revue, is a wearable digital camera that is designed to take photographs passively, without user intervention, while it is being worn. It has captured the imagination of many researchers excited by the potential of this device. Today, researchers worldwide are working with the SenseCam technology and include Computer Scientists, Neuropsychologists, Clinical Psychologists, Health Professionals, Rehabilitation specialists, Engineers, Cognitive Psychologists, Memory Scientists, Ethicists, Epidemiologists, Ethnographers, Lawyers, Archivists and Clinicians. They explore an even wider number of applications for this technology from being employed as a memory aid, as an assistive tool to the elderly, or as a tool to monitor exercise or population behaviour.
This year’s workshop follows on from the enormously successful inaugural symposium which was held in Chicago, Illinois, on the 16th and 17th of September 2009. The past event had around 50 people attending from the UK, Ireland, Mexico and across North America and from a range of domains and disciplines in attendence, and this year promises just as engaging and exciting as last years and to be equally if not better attended. The two day programme will feature two keynote talks from leading researchers in the area, regular paper and poster presentations, and software and hardware demonstrations developed by researchers working with the technology.
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Friday will see the second keynote presented by Chris Moulin on the topic of 'Assessing the impact of SenseCam: Insights from the neuropsychological approach'. This will be followed by a number of oral presentations on some exciting new topics and an address by Imogen Moorehouse, Managing Director of Vicon who will give an update on developments with SenseCam technology and 'The Story So Far' with the Vicon Revue. The day and the symposium will culminate in a panel based cross-disciplinary discussion of most thought-provoking points raised at the symposium and to consider the near and far future directions for SenseCam research.
More information on the Symposium, its programme and the SenseCam can be found on the website: http://www.clarity-centre.org/sensecam2010/
LOCAL ORGANISERS- Daragh Byrne, Dublin City University.
- Aiden Doherty, Dublin City University.
- Cathal Gurrin, Dublin City University.
- Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University
- Emma Berry, Microsoft Research Cambridge.
- Steve Hodges, Microsoft Research Cambridge.
- Imogen Moorhouse, Vicon.
- Phillipa Timmins, Vicon.
- Emma Wixey, Vicon