What are you doing in the same day last year?
Dinner with friends? Sitting in the cafe and meditation? Lying in bed? Business traveling? Preparing exam?
I believe that most of the people on this issue, are very difficult to have a clear explanation. Do not say that was a year ago today, even a month ago, it may be difficult to think “clearly” that what are they doing.
Some people began to write a diary, open the diary, a whole clear in mind. Some people started taking pictures, people may regard them as a valuable collectables, or put on the flicker, people own the records, also they can share with family and friends.
It was more thorough, carrying a camera around his neck, or any electronic product can video camera, each footprint whole life record, put on the page, accompanied by some text into a web page record of their own lives.
We call this behaviour is lifelogging. Log is meant login page or computer, you have a login page, and the life show will in front of you, lifelogging naturally become words to record their lives.
Although I am very hard to live a wonderful, even seriously live in the present, but often forget what you have done. I am delighted to have the emergence of smart phones, I know how to live but I don’t know how to recollect, nevertheless, I can photographed some segments of my life by smart phone, so that those who have experienced and will not become a thing of the past.
However, I can only be a minor lifelogging acts who is not really lifelogging. I didn’t completely record my life, also I can not completely put into the whole picture of life on the page. At the most selective, according to my own interest to take pictures, then depends on the mood and feeling, and post on the Facebook.
Lifelogging is the continuous integration of the digital world and the real world, information communication technology, digital storage technology development, equipment miniaturization, and portable background. It is through a combination of hardware and software, making life experience can be captured, stored and shared with others.
Steve Mann is the world’s first “cyborg“. Since the 1970s, he has been using wearable computer records all around, it is arguably one of the early practitioners of “life record.” Mann recent project is EyeTap digital glasses. These glasses can be fixed EyeTap Mann’s skull and connected to the brain through his brain-computer interface. This allows him to continue his life record.
Wear and use the wearable device to record the fun of fitness and health process is very attractive, and using its App services. Its gamification features allow the wearer can contest with yourself or others, and the effect of encouraging the wearer. Its online community was the target of similar enthusiasts who provide friendship colleague, the wearable electronic products for consumers to bring new impetus to improve posture or health status.
With the “life-logging” of popular recipes from breakfast, catch the first train, the first person you meet, the dinner food pictures, sharing meals with people face, the scenery of driving home, and get up, wash, work , travel, airport ……, everything becomes known, privacy has become one of the most discussed topics. While everyone at the time of recording “life log”, the main record is their life footprint, but others will inevitably appear in the log. For example, if you intend to uploaded a photo which including you and other people to the internet, but there are other possibilities in the photo who is not willing to show his/her face in the photo, then you have no right to open a photo of it? Similarly, some of the memory data if “life log” record who choose to open, would violate the rights of exposed his/her face and voice of the human?
For the networked, people need to make a balance between sharing information and information exposure risk. In this digital footprint can be fast tracked, personal preferences, ideas can be easily revealed era, this issue is particularly important. Internet users how to reduce the risk of information-sharing? A new equilibrium is legal, within the range of commercial and personal formation.
Law terms, lawmakers faced by legislative pressure, through setting standards indicate what personal information can be organizations or government agencies to use and which can not, also the use of the program; personal terms, people pay more attention to information sharing norms, as well as information disclosure degree. The use of information and communication technology has always been in the convenience and privacy aspects of exploration.
Aeron An 