Iam

Abstract

Creating and sharing persistent videos of personal experience presents an array of hardware and software issues. The hardware system to capture mobile personal experience digitally is not currently available out of the box and sharing hundreds of hours of video footage presents complex design and usability issues. iam is a research project to explore, catalogue and share user created point-of-view video. The project takes a more extreme position than current vloggers (video bloggers) by focusing on longer, unedited movies, capturing as many uninterrupted hours of footage as possible. The creator becomes the director, editor and actor in his or her own movie.Wearing a headmounted video camera creates numerous obstacles and opportunities for the creator and the audience being recorded. Having worn the camera for several months, I highlight some of the issues that arose when recording. Once this large amount of video data has been recorded, a system is needed to navigate through it. Using community filtering, frame extraction and metadata, iam provides an interface that allows the user to quickly absorb an overview of the entire video. These elements combine the strengths of video editing with current vlogging/blogging methods. Using the entire system, authors are able to create personal content and share it with others in a community-based personal space, where community usage determines future representations of the video.