Thank you very mich Vitorio for your suggestions on a full-day wearable = video capture solution. We are now definitely considering your suggested design rather than PDA + web cam. As for your open question on the utility of everyday constantly = recording systems I can give you some pointers (in case you haven't heard about them already). One is the MyLifeBits project http://research.microsoft.com/barc/mediapresence/MyLifeBits.aspx Another is the research of Steve Mann on EyeTap http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~mann/ A third is the general wearable computer community (check out for = instance the Georgia Tech wearable research group) but I guess you are aware of this kind of work already since you are subscribing to this = discussion forum. It is surely interesting to speculate for what and how these capturing = systems can become practical. In particular I find the potential use for the common man (rather than for specialized work = forces) very interesting. Anyway, our current pragmatic goal in the easyADL project is a quite = straightforward one: we intend to perform some ethnographical studies in order to manually identify everyday object manipulation. That = manually collected data will be fed into activity recognition algorithms in order to teach the "egocentric interaction" = system how particular everyday activities look. For more info on the idea and approach, please check out the web page: http://www.cs.umu.se/research/easyadl/ In the future we hope that the data we will manually collect by studying = the captured video will be possible to capture automatically. For now, we do it manually. Once again Vitorio, thanks for your hints on video capturing technology. Thomas=20 _______________________________________________ Wear-Hard mailing listhttp://www.haven.org/mailman/listinfo/wear-hard
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