Play, Pause, Rewind - The Era of Archived Lifetimes. From mobile devices to pervasive computing. When we store our data, we enter the era of archived lifetimes and lifelogging.

1. Play, Pause, Rewind
The Era of Archived Lifetimes
Dr Cathal Gurrin
(Insight Centre for Data Analytics, Dublin City University)
Lifelogger - Researcher - Educator
@cathal - cathal@gmail.com
Mayo2040 - 13th November 2014

2. What if you never had to forget anything again?

3. In the era of archived lifetimes you will be able to summon up
any memory or life experience…
Change the way we work and learn, improve our health,
change relationships…
It will change what it means to be human, and it is happening
now. In fact, it is inevitable…

4. Agenda
Pervasive Computing
The Phone as a Sensor
Archived Lifetimes

5. Omnipresent Access - General Computing Devices
1995
1997 1999
20142014
2013
2012
2012
201020092008
2006
2003 20042001
Oral Communication

6. The iPhone 5 is 60,000 times more powerful than the
computer that guided the Apollo 11 astronauts to the moon.
Increasingly
Powerful

7. Increasingly Low Cost and
more Powerful
€35 tablets; big disks, ubiquitous computing

8. Desktop
Laptop
Mobile
Wearable
Implants
80s
90s
00s
10s
20s
Mobile
Wearable
Beginning of
pervasive
computing
The early days
Nobody
knows

9. So we enter an era of
pervasive computing.

10. Is this for real?
• Wearable Computing
• New in 2012
• Novel in 2013
• Promising in 2014
• Mainstream in 2015

11. We don’t see mobile devices as access devices.
We see them as sensors.

12. Agenda
Pervasive Computing
The Phone as a Sensor
Archived Lifetimes

13. Pervasive Computing
Today

15. Google Glass

16. Omnipresent sensors, that enable a whole new
era of services that understand the individual

17. Understanding
The User Context
Raw$
Sensors$
What$doing$
What$
Environment$
Movement$
• Ac8vity$
• Energy$
Where$Who$is$there$
When$$
Why$

18. SIMPLE CONTEXT
UNDERSTAND USER HEALTH

19. DEEP CONTEXT
UNDERSTAND WHATTHE USER SEES
Computer Vision and Machine Learning

20. Enabling new services that know:
where the user is,
what the user is doing,
who is there,
etc..
These 2014 mobile devices can know more about us
than we know ourselves

21. OBENTO
sushi kit
Shop
Smart
Save €1.55 at:
Dunnes - 2.1KM
(map)
NEW SERVICES
UNDERSTANDTHE USER ENVIRONMENT

22. So.. why not flick the ‘store switch’?
Beginning a whole new era of personal computing…

23. Agenda
Pervasive Computing
The Phone as a Sensor
Archived Lifetimes

24. Using mobile devices and information devices to
automatically record everything you see, hear,
learn and experience. Creates a complete and
accurate record of an individual - a Lifelog.
First generation devices are on the market now
and people have begun to do this.
Archived Lifetimes

25. Lifelogging enables the concept of a surrogate memory. A
private digital archive that sees what you see, hears what you
hear, ‘knows you’ and is always available to help you.

26. Lifelogging has been around for decades.1920
Today
Dymaxion
Chronofile
Memex
1950
2000
Steve
Mann
MyLifeBits
First Market
Devices

27. In 2014, lifelogging
can generate
thousands of
images per day,
hours of audio and
tens of thousands of
data and sensor
readings per day.
Images, audio, locations, movements,
temperature, heartbeats, interactions,
communications, information, activities…

28. Enabling the ‘Internet of Me’
Private Lifelog
Life Enriching Value
A personal
search engine
for life
experience

29. New Opportunities
• Health - personalised health, new tailored treatments
• Productivity - greater understanding of self, enhanced
knowledge access, enhanced productivity
• Personal - never forget anything
• Security - your own security data, self-protection
(sousveillance)
• Societal - more productive and healthy population, a better
understood population
• … and many more …

30. EXTERNAL MEMORY
NEVER FORGET AGAIN / ALZHEIMER’S SUPPORT

31. Colour of Life
(objects, people, products)
VISUALISING LIFE
UNDERSTAND AND OPTIMISEYOUR LIFE

32. PERSONAL HEALTH
ENHANCED KNOWLEDGE FORTHE USER

33. BETTER UNDERSTANDING
WHAT MAKESYOU STRESSED?

34. UNDERSTANDING A CITY
POPULATION-WIDE ANALYTICS
!
!

35. EXTERNALISING MEMORY
SEARCHYOUR PAST EXPERIENCES
OBENTO
sushi kit
History
Search
You ate this in
March. You did
not like it.

36. FRIEND SEARCH
SEARCHYOUR PAST EXPERIENCES
Cathal Gurrin
DCU
Person
Search
You met in
March in DCU.

37. Archived lives will create a whole new set of
opportunities & challenges for
industry and society.
A new Google for archived lives, but;
Huge data storage challenges
Data security with huge consequences
Privacy of the lifelogger and bystanders

38. Privacy
Privacy and reputation of the lifelogger and the subjects/
bystanders.

39. In Summary
Mobile devices become context-aware pervasive
computing devices
Throw the ‘store switch’ .. begin the era of
lifelogging and surrogate memories
New challenges and opportunities
Then consider the impact of implantable devices

40. THANKYOU
cathal@gmail.com & @cathal
http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~cgurrin/
Any Questions?
(c) DCU 2014
LifeLogging: Personal Big Data
Cathal Gurrin,Alan F. Smeaton,Aiden R. Doherty
Published: 16 June 2014
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