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KidCam: Toward an Effective Technology for the Capture of Children’s Moments of Interest

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Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2009)

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Mobile applications of automated capture present many interesting design challenges, balancing the desire for rich media against ease of use and availability. In particular, capturing rich media of young children has many potential benefits, but remains a difficult challenge due to the many unique constraints of recording children. Motivated by the aim of supporting a parent’s need to record the life events of a young child, we have designed KidCam, a prototype rich media capture device. This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of KidCam and its goal of addressing some of the challenges of recording young children. Results from a three-month study with four families show that KidCam addresses some of the challenges of recording rich media of children, but there are still remaining hurdles. We discuss these remaining challenges, potential ideas for how they could be addressed, and emergent uses for KidCam beyond the initial domain for the creation of family memories.

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  1. Human Centered Design & Engineering and The Information School DUB Group, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

    Julie A. Kientz

  2. School of Interactive Computing and Health Systems Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Gregory D. Abowd

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  1. Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University, 5322, Endo, 252-8520, Fujisawa City, Kanagawa, Japan

    Hideyuki Tokuda

  2. Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig, Mühlenpfordtstrasse 23, 38106, Braunschweig, Germany

    Michael Beigl

  3. Computing Department, InfoLab 2, South Drive, Lancaster University, LA1 4WA, Lancaster, UK

    Adrian Friday

  4. Microsoft Research, One Microsoft Way, 98052-6399, Redmond, WA, USA

    A. J. Bernheim Brush

  5. Department of Information Systems and Multimedia Design, Tokyo Denki University, 2–2 Kanda-Nishiki-cho, Chiyoda-ku, 101–8457, Tokyo, Japan

    Yoshito Tobe

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Kientz, J.A., Abowd, G.D. (2009). KidCam: Toward an Effective Technology for the Capture of Children’s Moments of Interest. In: Tokuda, H., Beigl, M., Friday, A., Brush, A.J.B., Tobe, Y. (eds) Pervasive Computing. Pervasive 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5538. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01516-8_9

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