a looking-glass book

thesis specs

Video blogging will happen. The idea of not disposing or editing the footage,
instead allowing the end user the ability to quickly summarize the footage
and then drill down as interest piques is what has prompted this research project. I plan to focus on two halves for my thesis – both the creation of such a system, as well as attempting to create compelling content for it.

Certainly, video capturing hardware, filesizes, network connectivity, GL planes (or simple 2D frame representation) in a browser window, security, multi-user representations, GPS data and other technical pieces help make up the system.

I believe that something interesting happens when you begin to acknowledge this camera – your life, your choices change. You look at different things, aware other will judge based on the decisions you make constantly. Your decisions become more fake. Fake, in that you are no longer leading your life, you are performing for an audience. You are presenting a viewpoint that you have engineered for entertainment purposes. But this fake movie happens in reality. An interesting feedback loop emerges - living a lie that is presented as fact - and is fact because you are living it, though it is in direct contradiction with how one would normally behave. It is this dichomity I want to explore as content for the software.

Spreadsheet

Scott has pointed me to a lot of other resources on the net that are involved in similar projects - a darpa proposal for a lifelog, mylifebits, anil dash's idea of a personal panopticon. even the sensecam could be used as my hardware solution (though i have not yet heard back from steven about this possibility).

the difference here between my project and the others is not just in the collection (none of these involve recording your viewpoint for an entire day - or saving gps points), but also the interface and content issues, which is where i really want to focus my energies.