Reflection on Reflection: Daily Review of Lifelog Photos and the Usability of Wearable Digital Camera

Abstract

The novel activity of continuous visual lifelogging, becoming more and more affordable with small, wearable digital cameras, allows a user to visually record a day's activities in remarkable details and review or re-live later. Loaded with privacy and ethical issues but still promising so many potentially positive usage scenarios, such an extreme lifelogging has many aspects to be further explored to become a truly meaningful, usable and life quality-enhancing activity. Based on the authors' first-hand experiences of practicing visual lifelogging for a number of years, this paper describes the usability issues of wearing a typical lifelog digital camera and reviewing the photos each day. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013.