Today, there is a talk from Gillian Hayes at Georgia Tech. She is talking about Support and Surveillance: Audio and Video Recording in Daily Life. I've noticed that her supervisor is Gregory Abowd who is doing work in context-aware computing. Abstract of her talk is here.
Capturing information is too much work and hard, a lot of times I know that I want to record stuff in my life using my camera and video, and it definitely is not trivial and can be cumbersome. Her work deals with how to do selective archiving of audio and video. This relates to a project that Microsoft Research is doing which is MyLifeBits from Gordon Bell.
One study that she is looking at has to deal with how to use technology to help autism patients. Right now, paper forms have to be done for record keeping of the autistic child's behaviour. Therefore, the recording and capture has to be made really simple. This was tested out in a school deployment and every teacher completed successful assessment with minimum amount of training. In this system, teachers were able to still get access to the data if they were to miss the incident. One concern is that it took longer to review the data, because the teachers had to spend the time to view the video. Teachers felt in control because they were part of the analytic process.
Another study looked into the acceptability of selective archiving in an informal space, which formed the BufferWare project.
The objectives of the case studies dealt with the tension points for users when doing selective archiving and capturing of audio and video. For example, who owns the data? Another question has to deal with when to record, and if recording, is this a potential risk? Does it become a technology for self-monitoring? Therefore, there can be an element of intrusiveness of the technology. As a result, acceptability of the technology requires understanding and trust.
Selective archiving is an appropriate and adoptable approach for functional behaviour assessment. One of the things she is looking into is the effects of selective archiving and capturing on collaborative publishing and editing. You see this with YouTube where people record and post videos, but they don't really collaborate on them. But all these case studies had technology built into the space, what about the technology in a mobile setting? Gillian and others created the Personal Audio Loop, where you would be able to record audio at a particular point in time and find it.
One of the things that I'm curious to know is this. These are specific case studies where the technology is deployed in the environment for capturing and recording. What about for the average individual, for example, going on a trip? Are there concepts, design elements from these studies that could be applied for selective archiving for the average person? And how could something like this be incorporated into a blog?
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