SenseCam: A wearable camera that stimulates and rehabilitates autobiographical memory
Abstract
SenseCam is a wearable digital camera that captures an electronic record of the wearer's day. It does this by automatically recording a series of still images through its wide-angle lens, and simultaneously capturing a log of data from a number of built-in electronic sensors. Subsequently reviewing a sequence of images appears to provide a powerful autobiographical memory cue. A preliminary evaluation of SenseCam with a patient diagnosed with severe memory impairment was extremely positive; periodic review of images of events recorded by SenseCam resulted in significant recall of those events. Following this, a great deal of work has been undertaken to explore this phenomenon and there are early indications that SenseCam technology may be beneficial to a variety of patients with physical and mental health problems, and is valuable as a tool for investigating normal memory through behavioural and neuroimaging means. Elsewhere, it is becoming clear that judicious use of SenseCam could significantly impact the study of human behaviour. Meanwhile, research and development of the technology itself continues with the aim of providing robust hardware and software tools to meet the needs of clinicians, patients, carers, and researchers. In this paper we describe the history of SenseCam, and the design and operation of the SenseCam device and the associated viewing software, and we discuss some of the ongoing research questions being addressed with the help of SenseCam.
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Automatically capturing snapshots of everyday life and recording short videos can help people remember aspects of their recent past that may otherwise become inaccessible.
“In addition, it has been demonstrated that automatically capturing snapshots of everyday life as well as recording short videos can help people to remember aspects of their recent past that may otherwise become inaccessible ( Hodges et al., 2011; Loveday & Conway, 2011; Martin et al., 2022;for a review, see Silva et al., 2018).”
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- Authors
- Hodges, S., Berry, E., & Wood, K.
- Affiliations
- Microsoft Research (United Kingdom) (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Hodges, Steve
- Venue
- Memory
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2011-10
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 685-696
- ISSN
- 0965-8211 (ISSN-L)
- 1464-0686
- OpenAlex
- W2059861553
- Cited by
- 181
- References
- 4
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 16.04
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Memory (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Functions and Memory
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Keywords
- SenseCam, wearable cameras, autobiographical memory, memory rehabilitation, memory impairment, event recall, image review, memory cues, sensor data logging, neuroimaging, behavioral research
- MeSH terms
- Anthropology, Cultural, Automation, Behavioral Sciences, Brain Mapping, Environmental Monitoring, Equipment Design, Forecasting, Hippocampus, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Life Change Events, Memory Disorders, Microcomputers, Photography, Mental Recall, Self-Help Devices, Software, Memory, Episodic
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