Something out of CS that might be relevant...

[Emily M. Bender]

While we're on the topic of video, I thought that the following
abstract might be of interest.  I doubt that it would be practical
in many field situations, nor for budgetary reasons in other situations
for the near term, but it's probably worth knowing that this stuff
is going on.

Emily

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COLLOQUIUM

SPEAKER:   Gregory Abowd, Georgia Institute of Technology

TITLE:     From Whimsical to Medical: Why I Care About Capturing Life Experiences

DATE:      Tuesday, March 8, 2005

TIME:      3:30 pm

PLACE:     EE-105

HOST:      Gaetano Borriello

ABSTRACT:

For the past ten years at Georgia Tech, we have been motivated to
achieve some fraction of the potential that Mark Weiser envisioned for
ubiquitous computing.  Taking an applications-driven approach, we have
focussed on augmenting spaces, including the classroom, office, home and
body, providing "living laboratories" of ubiquitous computing research.
One common theme in our investigations is the capture of live
experiences for later access.  In this talk, I would like to expose the
rich possibilities of this problem domain through a more detailed
discussion of two case studies. In the first example, we examine how a
desire to share decades of family memories drives the development of
semi-automated tools to annotate and browse home movies and further
motivates the ability to annotate video at the point of capture. Though
this home movie case study is inspired by a desire to share the
whimsical and otherwise emotionally stirring memories of family life, it
also suggests more serious medical applications.  The second example,
inspired by the first, applies automated capture to track the
developmental progress of children. We specifically address the
challenges of developmental progress in children with autism, hoping
that the technological leverage of automated capture can help families,
educators and researchers better understand the effectiveness of a
variety of intervention strategies.


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