Lifelogging As An Extreme Form of Personal Information Management - What Lessons To Learn

Published: 01 Jan 2024, Last Modified: 08 Apr 2025CoRR 2024EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: Personal data includes the digital footprints that we leave behind as part of our everyday activities, both online and offline in the real world. It includes data we collect ourselves, such as from wearables, as well as the data collected by others about our online behaviour and activities. Sometimes we are able to use the personal data we ourselves collect, in order to examine some parts of our lives but for the most part, our personal data is leveraged by third parties including internet companies, for services like targeted advertising and recommendations. Lifelogging is a form of extreme personal data gathering and in this article we present an overview of the tools used to manage access to lifelogs as demonstrated at the most recent of the annual Lifelog Search Challenge benchmarking workshops. Here, experimental systems are showcased in live, real time information seeking tasks by real users. This overview of these systems' capabilities show the range of possibilities for accessing our own personal data which may, in time, become more easily available as consumer-level services.
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