"Utilising Wearable Sensor Technology to Provide Effective Memory Cues" from ERCIM News (No. 76, January 2009)

...on a wearable sensor technology that passively records 'lifelog' images and sensor readings of a wearer's daily life... The focus of our work is not on aggregating, collecting or networking data as in the usual application of sensors in the Sensor Web, but rather on detecting events of interest to the wearer from a multi-sensor standalone device... Read full article

"James May Big Ideas: Man Machine" aired on BBC2 (9 October 2008)

... in a BBC program exploring the technologies of the future our SenseCam work is covered. Here is a YouTube clip of the section in the program related to us …

"Life logging’ lets people digitally record all the details of their lives" from The Brandon Sun, Canada (5 March 2008)

…Alan Smeaton, a computer science professor at Dublin City University in Ireland, is developing complex software that will take all those [lifelog] images and organize them by importance... Read full article

"Miniature camera unveiled" from RTE Six One News (9 November 2007)

...Ray Colgan reports on a new camera which automatically takes over 3,000 photos a day... Read full article

"Microsoft – DCU Micro camera project shoots a million pictures" from DCU online news (9 November 2007)

…DCU scientists are working with the Research Department of US Multinational Microsoft using a wearable miniature camera – A SenseCam – to provide a searchable digital picture diary of a person’s entire day... Read full article (PDF)

"On The Record, All the Time: Researchers digitally capture the daily flow of life. Should they?" from The Chronicle of Higher Education (9 February 2007)

... researchers like Alan F. Smeaton, are trying to find automated ways to navigate lifelogging data. Mr. Smeaton, a professor of computing at Dublin City University, in Ireland, specializes in video, and his research team has created programs that can scan video and automatically find, say, action sequences... Read full article

"Gordon Bell feeds every piece of his life into a surrogate brain" from FastCompany.com (Issue 110, November 2006)

...So are all those photos a waste of memory? Or can that kind of exhaustive visual record actually be worth something? Alan Smeaton, a professor of computing at Dublin University, thinks it can. After hearing about Bell's project, Smeaton got Microsoft to lend him a few SenseCams and gave them to his students, who began wearing them all day long... Read full article

"Research Cocktail" from Science Spin (Issue 17 Page 3)

…The wonderful thing about digital technology is that it crosses many disciplines, spreading as it does like an omnipresent blanket over our lives. The SFI-funded Adaptive Information Cluster in DCU is running with this theme... Read full article (PDF)

"Navigating through the content of digital videos - the viewer's cut!" from DCU Times (Summer Edition, 26 May 2006)

…A unique cross-disciplinary collaboration is yielding exciting developments in the field of automated analysis of digital video information. Cormac Sheridan talks to Prof Alan Smeaton of DCU's Centre for Digital Video Processing about how his cutting-edge research is attracting multinational investment... Link to Summer Edition – Read full article (PDF)

"Taking holiday snaps to a whole new level" from Sunday Tribune (26 February 2006)

…Taking photographs on holiday may become a thing of the past due to new technology Irish researchers are working on which will creat photo diaries using a tiny camera that can attach to clothing... Read full article

"Microsoft and DCU Target Alzheimer’s in Micro Camera Project" from Pat Kenney Show, RTE Radio 1 (21 February 2006)

… US Multinational Microsoft has chosen a Dublin City University research team to take part in a project to create tiny cameras that can record a searchable digital picture diary of your entire day... Listen to the clip (mp3; 9min 55sec) Also from DCU News Read full article

"Snap Happy Sense" from Irish Examiner (03 March 2006)

…A professor of computing at Dublin's Adaptive Information Cluster, who is leading a research project to create tiny cameras that can record a searchable digital picture diary of your entire day which could bring significant benefits to Alzheimer patients… Read full article

"Mini camera keeps track of memories" from The Metro (22 February 2006)

…Researchers at DCU's Adaptive Information Cluster group were asked to develop a programme that could identify and compile the highlights of patients' day. Those highlights could then be used by doctors and family members to see how patients spend the day… Read full article