Guest Editors' Introduction: Capture, Archival, and Retrieval of Personal Experience

J. Gemmell, H. Sundaram
2006 IEEE Multimedia  
T he human preoccupation with capturing and archiving memorable experiences witnessed astonishing technological advancement in the 20th century, progressing from diaries and paintings to the dawn of the digital camera and camcorder era-and ushering in our multimedia community. Today, we must expand our notion of media, because audio and video recording can also be supplemented in many ways, including with temperature, heart rate, location, acceleration, humidity, Web pages visited, and logging
more » ... ow we use many devices. At the same time, digital storage has become inexpensive and plentiful enough to enable personal archives on a previously unimaginable scale. This has led researchers to focus less on the representation, archival, and transmission of isolated events (such as images of a party or video of a wedding) and consider what might happen if media were recorded continuously, or nearly continuously. We believe that the increase in the quantity and fidelity of media that will occur in the coming years, and our ability to archive, organize, and retrieve this information will fundamentally affect our culture. We dedicate this special issue to an emerging
doi:10.1109/mmul.2006.82 fatcat:oi5ymiqdzbbg5fbgtsahmbsseu