lifelog

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A known lifelogger was Robert Shields, who manually recorded 25 years of his life from 1972 to 1997, at 5-minute intervals. This record resulted in a 37-million word diary, thought to be the longest ever written.{{cite news |last1=Martin |first1=Douglas |title=Robert Shields, Wordy Diarist, Dies at 89 |work=The New York Times |date=29 October 2007 |access-date=2 September 2019|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/29/us/29shields.html}}

Steve Mann was the first person to capture continuous physiological data along with a live first-person video from a wearable camera.Wearable Computing, a First Step Toward Personal Imaging, IEEE Computer, Vol. 30, No. 2, February 1997, 25-32. Starting in 1994, Mann continuously transmitted his life — 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.{{cite web |url=http://www.coolsiteoftheday.com/cgi-bin/stillcool.pl?month=02&year=1995 |title=Still Cool Archive: February 1995 |website=Cool Site of the Day |access-date=2013-09-26 |archive-date=2013-09-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130925040530/http://www.coolsiteoftheday.com/cgi-bin/stillcool.pl?month=02&year=1995 |url-status=dead }} Using a wearable camera and wearable display, he invited others to see what he was looking at, as well as to send him live feeds or messages in real-time.{{cite web |website = WearTech |title=Wearable Wireless Webcam and Telemetry |author=Steve Mann |date = 1995 |access-date=13 October 2019 |url=http://wearcam.org/netcam.html}} In 1998 Mann started a community of lifeloggers (also known as lifebloggers or lifegloggers) which has grown to more than 20,000 members. Throughout the 1990s Mann presented this work to the U.S. Army, with two visits to US Natick Army Research Labs.Sensate Liner Quarterly Review, April 23-24th, 1997, Natick Army Labs, Dr. Eric J. Lind, Naval Command Control and Ocean Surveillance Center, Research Development Test and Evaluation Division, Navigation and Applied Sciences Department, Environmental Sciences Division, Materials, Sensors and Systems Branch Code 364

In 1996, Jennifer Ringley started JenniCam, broadcasting photographs from a webcam in her college bedroom every fifteen seconds; the site was turned off in 2003.{{cite news |work=BBC News Magazine |author= |date=18 October 2016 |access-date=13 October 2019 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-37681006|title=Jennicam: The first woman to stream her life on the internet}}

"We Live In Public" was a 24/7 Internet conceptual art experiment created by Josh Harris in December 1999. With a format similar to TV's Big Brother, Harris placed tapped telephones, microphones and 32 robotic cameras in the home he shared with his girlfriend, Tanya Corrin. Viewers talked to Harris and Corrin in the site's chatroom.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.11/luvvy.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070111060936/http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.11/luvvy.html|archive-date=11 January 2007|access-date=13 October 2019|author=Charles Platt|title= Steaming video| magazine=Wired|date= November 2000}} Harris recently launched the online live video platform, Operator 11.{{cite magazine |author=Erica Naone |title= The Rise of the Net Jockey|magazine= Technology Review|date=10 August 2007}}

In 2001, Kiyoharu Aizawa discussed the problem of how to handle a huge amount of videos continuously captured in one's life and presented an automatic summarization.{{cite book | chapter-url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/958135 | doi=10.1109/ICIP.2001.958135 | chapter=Summarizing wearable video | title=Proceedings 2001 International Conference on Image Processing (Cat. No.01CH37205) | date=2001 | last1=Aizawa | first1=K. | last2=Ishijima | first2=K. | last3=Shiina | first3=M. | volume=2 | pages=398–401 | isbn=0-7803-6725-1 }}

The lifelog DotComGuy ran throughout 2000, when Mitch Maddox lived the entire year without leaving his house.{{cite book|last1=Couldry|first1=Nick|last2=McCarthy|first2=Anna|title=MediaSpace: place, scale, and culture in a media age|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F6QrJwlOnQsC&pg=PA200|access-date=31 March 2011|date=2004-01-07|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-29175-0|page=200}} After Joi Ito's discussion of Moblogging, which involves web publishing from a mobile device,{{cite web|website=Joi Ito's Radio Outline |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040831034056/http://radio.weblogs.com/0114939/outlines/moblog.html |url=http://radio.weblogs.com/0114939/outlines/moblog.html |archive-date=31 August 2004 |access-date=13 October 2019 |date=2004 |title=Joi Ito's Moblogging, Blogmapping and Moblogmapping related resources as of 6/10/2003}} came Gordon Bell's MyLifeBits (2004), an experiment in digital storage of a person's lifetime, including full-text search, text/audio annotations, and hyperlinks.{{citation needed|date=October 2019}}

In 2003, a project called LifeLog was started at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), under the supervision of Douglas Gage. This project would combine several technologies to record life activities, in order to create a life diary. Shortly after, the notion of lifelogging was identified as a technology and cultural practice that could be exploited by governments, businesses or militaries through surveillance.{{cite journal |last1=Pedersen |first1=Isabel |title=A Semiotics of Human Actions for Wearable Augmented Reality Interfaces |journal=Semiotica |date=2005 |volume=155 |issue=1 |pages=183–201|doi=10.1515/semi.2005.2005.155.1part4.183 |doi-broken-date=1 November 2024 }} The DARPA lifelogging project was cancelled by 2004, but this project helped to popularize the idea, and the usage of the term lifelogging in everyday discourse. It contributed to the growing acceptance of using technology for augmented memory.{{cite book |last1=Pedersen |first1=Isabel |title=Ready to Wear: A Rhetoric of Wearable Computers and Reality-Shifting Media |date=2013 |publisher=Parlor Press |location=Anderson |pages=109–112}}

In 2003, Kiyoharu Aizawa introduced a context-based video retrieval system that was designed to handle data continuously captured from various sources, including a wearable camera, a microphone, and multiple sensors such as a GPS receiver, an acceleration sensor, a gyro sensor, and a brain-wave analyzer. By extracting contextual information from these inputs, the system can retrieve specific scenes captured by the wearable camera.{{cite book | chapter-url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/973264.973270 | doi=10.1145/973264.973270 | chapter=Context-based video retrieval system for the life-log applications | title=Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGMM international workshop on Multimedia information retrieval - MIR '03 | date=2003 | last1=Hori | first1=Tetsuro | last2=Aizawa | first2=Kiyoharu | page=31 | isbn=1-58113-778-8 }}

In 2004, conceptual media artist Alberto Frigo began tracking everything his right hand (his dominant hand) had used,{{cite news| url=https://www.wired.com/2006/04/alberto_frigo/ | newspaper=Wired Magazine|date=April 9, 2006| author=Bruce Sterling | title=Alberto Frigo }} then began adding different tracking and documentation projects. His tracking was done manually rather than using technology.

In 2004 Arin Crumley and Susan Buice met online and began a relationship. They decided to forgo verbal communication during the initial courtship and instead spoke to each other via written notes, sketches, video clips, and Myspace. They went on to create an autobiographical film about their experience, called Four Eyed Monsters. It was part-documentary, part-narrative, with a few scripted elements added. They went on to produce a two-season podcast about the making of the film to promote it.{{citation needed|date=October 2019}}

In 2007 Justin Kan began streaming continuous live video and audio from a webcam attached to a cap, beginning at midnight on March 19, 2007. He created a website, Justin.tv, for the purpose.{{cite web|url=http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2007/06/06/a-conversation-with-justin-kan-of-justintv/ |title=A Conversation with Justin Kan of Justin.tv |publisher=10zenmonkeys.org |date=2007-06-06 |access-date=2009-09-30}} He described this procedure as "lifecasting".

In recent years, with the advent of smartphones and similar devices, lifelogging became much more accessible. For instance, UbiqLog{{cite journal|title=UbiqLog: a generic mobile phone-based life-log framework|journal=Personal and Ubiquitous Computing|volume=17|issue=4|pages=621–637|doi=10.1007/s00779-012-0511-8|year=2013|last1=Rawassizadeh|first1=Reza|last2=Tomitsch|first2=Martin|last3=Wac|first3=Katarzyna|last4=Tjoa|first4=A. Min|citeseerx=10.1.1.308.3749|s2cid=10664069}} and Experience Explorer{{cite book|publisher=IEEE|doi=10.1109/NGMAST.2009.49|title = 2009 Third International Conference on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies|pages=77–82|year = 2009|last1 = Belimpasakis|first1 = Petros|last2=Roimela|first2=Kimmo|last3=You|first3=Yu|isbn=978-0-7695-3786-3|s2cid=26172277}} employ mobile sensing to perform life logging, while other lifelogging devices, like the Autographer, use a combination of visual sensors and GPS tracking to simultaneously document one's location and what one can see.{{cite news | url=http://www.beststuff.com/photography/camera/autographer-life-logging-wearable-camera-review/29116/ | title=Autographer Life Logging Wearable Camera Review | year=2014 | access-date=2014-05-14 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140515155129/http://www.beststuff.com/photography/camera/autographer-life-logging-wearable-camera-review/29116/ | archive-date=2014-05-15 | url-status=dead }} Lifelogging was popularized by the mobile app Foursquare, which had users "check in" as a way of sharing and saving their location; this later evolved into the popular lifelogging app, Swarm.{{citation needed|date=October 2019}}

Life caching refers to the social act of storing and sharing one's entire life events in an open and public forum such as Facebook.{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2004/aug/19/onlinesupplement.blogging | location=London | work=The Guardian | title=How to save your life | first=Jack | last=Schofield | author-link=Jack Schofield (journalist)|date=August 18, 2004}}{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2007/feb/21/lifecachingre | location=London | work=The Guardian | title=Life caching revisited -- Gordon Bell's digital life | first=Jack | last=Schofield | date=February 21, 2007}}{{cite news| url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/07/17/1089694609201.html | location=Melbourne | work=The Age | title=Life in byte-sized pieces | date=July 18, 2004 | first=Lucy | last=Beaumont}}{{cite news |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10350533 |title=The trend-spotters handbook |date=October 17, 2005 |work=The New Zealand Herald |access-date=October 14, 2011}}{{cite news| url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/ethics-on-the-line-as-ordinary-people-put-themselves-in-the-picture/2006/07/31/1154198070612.html | work=The Sydney Morning Herald | title=Ethics on the line as ordinary people put themselves in the picture | date=August 1, 2006}} Modern life caching is considered a form of social networking and typically takes place on the internet. The term was introduced in 2005 by trendwatching.com,{{Cite web | url=http://trendwatching.com/trends/LIFE_CACHING.htm | title=LIFE CACHING | an emerging consumer trend and related new business ideas | access-date=2010-04-10 | archive-date=2010-04-12 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100412172303/http://trendwatching.com/trends/LIFE_CACHING.htm | url-status=dead }} in a report predicting this would soon be a trend, given the availability of relevant technology. However, life log information is privacy-sensitive, and therefore sharing such information is associated with risks.{{cite journal| title=Towards sharing life-log information with society | year=2012| doi=10.1080/0144929X.2010.510208 | last1=Rawassizadeh| first1=Reza| journal=Behaviour & Information Technology| volume=31| issue=11| pages=1057–1067}}

To assist in their efforts of tracking, some lifeloggers use mobile devices and apps. Utilizing the GPS and motion processors of digital devices enables lifelogging apps to easily record metadata related to daily activities. Myriad lifelogging apps are available in the App Store (iOS), Google Play and other app distribution platforms, but some commonly cited apps include: Instant,{{Cite news|url=http://emberify.com/blog/lifelogging-apps-2018/|title=5 Lifelogging apps for 2018: Keep track of your year|date=2016-01-14|work=Emberify Blog|access-date=2018-01-18|language=en|archive-date=2018-01-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180118122737/http://emberify.com/blog/lifelogging-apps-2018/|url-status=dead}} Reporter,{{cite news| url=https://www.theverge.com/2014/2/6/5378544/reporter-for-iphone-app-tracks-your-life-nicholas-felton-quantified-self | work=The Verge|date=February 6, 2014| author=Ellis Hamburger | title= Reporter for iPhone tracks your whole life, one quiz at a time}} Journey,{{cite news| url=http://lifehacker.com/journey-is-a-journal-app-with-photo-support-and-calenda-1752893314| work=Lifehacker| date=January 14, 2016| author= Eric Ravenscraft| title= Journey Is a Journal App With Photo Support and Calendar View}} Path,{{cite news| url=http://www.slashgear.com/these-three-ios-apps-make-life-logging-fun-and-easy-09336828/ | work=Slash Gear|date=July 9, 2014| author= Nate Swanner| title= These three iOS apps make life-logging fun and easy}} Moves,{{cite news|url=http://mashable.com/2013/09/24/lifelogging-apps/ | work=Mashable|date=September 24, 2013| author= Dani Fankhauser| title= 9 Lifelogging Apps to Log Personal Data}} and HeyDay,{{cite news| url= http://lifestreamblog.com/lifelogging/| work=Lifestream Blog| title= Lifelogging / Quantified Self}} insight for Wear (a smartwatch app).{{cite news| url= https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.insight.insight | title= Lifelogging tool for Android Smartwatch }}

Xperia also has a native mobile application which is called Lifelog.{{cite web|title=Lifelog – innovative activity tracker Android™ app from Sony|url=http://www.sonymobile.com/global-en/apps-services/lifelog/|access-date=10 Oct 2015}} The app works standalone but gets enriched when used with Sony Smart Bands.{{cite web|title=Sony SmartBand 2|url=http://www.sonymobile.com/global-en/products/smartwear/smartband-2/|access-date=10 Oct 2015}}

Swarm is a lifelogging app that motivates users to check-in, recording every place they've visited, while inspiring them to visit new places.{{citation needed|date=October 2019}}

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• Cathal Gurrin
• Diary
• Digital footprint
• Dymaxion Chronofile
• Egocentric vision
• Gordon Bell
• Lifecasting (video stream)
• Lifestreaming
• Microsoft SenseCam
• MyLifeBits
• Narrative Clip
• Personal knowledge base
• Quantified self
• Smartglasses
• Sousveillance
• Wearable computer

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• {{Cite journal

| last1=Kieron | first1=O'Hara

| last2=Tuffield | first2=Mischa M.

| last3=Shadbolt | first3=Nigel

| publication-date=2009

| title=Lifelogging: Privacy and empowerment with memories for life

| journal=Identity in the Information Society

| doi=10.1007/s12394-009-0008-4

| year=2009

| volume=1

| issue=1

| pages=155

| doi-access=free

| url=https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/267123/1/ohara_et_al_idis_lifelogging.pdf

}}

• {{Cite book |last=Gurrin |first=Cathal |author-link=Cathal Gurrin |title=Lifelogging: Personal Big Data |last2=Smeaton |first2=Alan |author-link2=Alan Smeaton |last3=Doherty |first3=Aiden |doi=10.1561/1500000033 |year=2014}}

• [http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i23/23a03001.htm "On the Record, All the Time"] from the Chronicle of Higher Education
• [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/magazine/02self-measurement-t.html "The Data-Driven life"] from The New York Times
• [http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2007/02/lifelogging_an.php Lifelogging, An Inevitability] (Kevin Kelly)

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