SenseCam 2009
Clinical and Technical Advances and the Future of SenseCam Research
A huge thanks to everyone who attended the SenseCam Symposium this year and helped to make it such a great success.
We had around 50 people attending from the UK, Ireland, Mexico and across North America. There were 20 presentations covering a wide range of research around SenseCam – from neuro-imaging to health monitoring and from memory rehabilitation to privacy implications. There were also 11 poster presentations.
We would like to thank everyone for their extremely positive feedback surrounding the event and are looking forward to seeing everyone next year in Dublin at the SenseCam 2010 Symposium.
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ABOUT SENSECAM
SenseCam is a wearable digital camera that is designed to take photographs passively, without user intervention, while it is being worn. Unlike a regular digital camera or a cameraphone, SenseCam does not have a viewfinder or a display that can be used to frame photos. Instead, it is fitted with a wide-angle (fish-eye) lens that maximizes its field-of-view. This ensures that nearly everything in the wearer’s view is captured by the camera, which is important because a regular wearable camera would likely produce many uninteresting images.
SenseCam also contains a number of different electronic sensors. These include light-intensity and light-color sensors, a passive infrared (body heat) detector, a temperature sensor, and a multiple-axis accelerometer. These sensors are monitored by the camera’s microprocessor, and certain changes in sensor readings can be used to automatically trigger a photograph to be taken.
APPLICATIONS FOR SENSECAM
SenseCam has been used in a wide range of research applications including:
- As an aid for people with memory loss and other forms of cognitive impairment .
- As a recording device for monitoring food intake, helping dieticians see the type, the quantity, and the timing of food a patient is eating.
- As a tool to assess accessibility issues encountered by wheelchair users.
- To coordinate disaster response by recording visual information encountered by people responding to disasters who are preoccupied with providing hands-on help.
- As an automatic diary that doesn’t require expensive, intrusive recording equipment or restrict a user’s activities.
- To monitor physiological data to help patients understand the sequence of events that precedes a period of intense anxiety or anger.
- To monitor lighting conditions in schools and to learn how they affect students.
- As a tool to monitor exercise in chronic disease.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Professor Martin Conway, University of Leeds Memory Group. 'SenseCam and Memory'
Professor Alan Seaton, CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, Dublin City University. 'Managing Millions of SenseCam Images: Events are Key'
IMPORTANT DEADLINES
Please check back for details regarding deadlines for the SenseCam 2010 Symposium.
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ABOUT CHICAGO
Chicago, Illinois has a rich and colorful history as one of America’s most important, influential, and significant metropolitan areas in our great nation’s landscape. It is the third most populous city and metropolitan area in the United States, after New York and Los Angeles (2.8 million and 9.5 million, respectively, as of the 2007 U.S. census). Chicago’s world renowned skyline overlooks the southwestern bank of Lake Michigan. This geographic position derives one of Chicago’s many sobriquets, “The Third Coast”. Other nicknames include: “Windy City”, “Second City”, “City of Big Shoulders”, and “Chi-town”. Chicago welcomes 44.2 million visitors each year and is proud you have chosen to be one of them.
Established in 1833 and incorporated in 1838, Chicago has been a transportation, shipping, telecommunications, business, and cultural hub for over 170 years. It is the financial and industrial center of the Midwest region and operates everyday on a global scale. In the beginning, the land on which Chicago has been built was inhabited by Native American tribes Miami, Sac, Fox, and Potawatomi. The Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi ceded the land to the U.S. government in the 1816 Treaty of St. Louis. “Chicago” is the French interpretation of the Miami-Illinois word for a type of leek known as shikaakwa.
Chicago has seen a devastating fire, a bar-setting World’s Fair, and several notorious gangsters over the course of its vibrant history. U.S. President, Barack Obama, proudly calls Chicago home, and the city is often used as the backdrop for critically acclaimed and blockbuster motion pictures. O’Hare, one of Chicago’s two international airports, is the world’s busiest in terms of aircraft movement and second busiest in total passengers. Vastly multi-cultural, Chicago enjoys some of the world’s best restaurants, art, music, sports, architecture, universities, and microcosms of diversity and culture.
(Sources: http://chicagopc.info/; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago;)
