The effects of end-of-day picture review and a sensor-based picture capture procedure on autobiographical memory using SenseCam
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Emerging "life-logging" technologies have tremendous potential to augment human autobiographical memory by recording and processing vast amounts of information from an individual's experiences. In this experiment undergraduate participants wore a SenseCam, a small, sensor-equipped digital camera, as they went about their normal daily activities for five consecutive days. Pictures were captured either at fixed intervals or as triggered by SenseCam's sensors. On two of five nights, participants watched an end-of-day review of a random subset of pictures captured that day. Participants were tested with a variety of memory measures at intervals of 1, 3, and 8 weeks. The most fruitful of six measures were recognition rating (on a 1-7 scale) and picture-cued recall length. On these tests, end-of-day review enhanced performance relative to no review, while pictures triggered by SenseCam's sensors showed little difference in performance compared to those taken at fixed time intervals. We discuss the promise of SenseCam as a tool for research and for improving autobiographical memory.
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Having access to photos documenting one's life can help to reconstruct past experiences that are not accessible in unaided recall.
“Generally speaking, these studies indicate that having access to photos documenting one's life can help to reconstruct past experiences that are not accessible in unaided recall.”
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Most studies that have investigated the effects of high-tech external resources on recollection focused on the impact of reviewing photos.
“Most studies that have investigated the effects of high-tech external resources on recollection focused on the impact of reviewing photos (see, e.g., Finley et al., 2011;Mair et al., 2017;Martin et al., 2022; for reviews, see Foley, 2020;Silva et al., 2018).”
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- Authors
- Finley, J. R., Brewer, W. F., & Benjamin, A. S.
- Affiliations
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
- Corresponding author
- Finley, Jason R.
- Venue
- Memory
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2011-10
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 796-807
- ISSN
- 0965-8211 (ISSN-L)
- 1464-0686
- PMC
- PMC3103752
- OpenAlex
- W1979792283
- Cited by
- 50
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 2 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 0.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Memory (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Aging (R01AG026263)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Functions and Memory
- Keywords
- autobiographical memory, SenseCam, lifelogging, memory enhancement, recognition memory, digital cameras
- MeSH terms
- Activities of Daily Living, Adolescent, Algorithms, Cues, Environmental Monitoring, Equipment Design, Female, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Life Change Events, Male, Microcomputers, Photography, Mental Recall, Self-Help Devices, Time Factors, Recognition, Psychology, Young Adult, Memory, Episodic
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