Selfie Stick Research Articles

Development of a self-monitoring tool for diabetic foot prevention using smartphone-based thermography: Plantar thermal pattern changes and usability in the home environment.

Thermography is a well-known risk-assessment tool for diabetic foot ulcers but is not widely used in the home setting due to the influence of the complicated home environment on thermographic images. This study investigated changes in thermographic images in complicated home environments to determine the feasibility of smartphone-based thermography in home settings. Healthy volunteers (age > 20 years) were recruited and required to take plantar thermal images using smartphone-based thermography attached to a selfie stick at different times of the day for 4 days. The thermal images and associated activities and environmental factors were then analyzed using content analysis. Areas with the highest temperature on the plantar thermal images were described and categorized. Device usability was evaluated using 10-point Likert scales, with 10 representing the highest satisfaction. A total of 140 plantar thermal images from 10 participants were analyzed. In 12 classifications, the three commonest patterns based on the highest temperature location were medial arch (42.1%), whole plantar (10.7%), and forefoot and medial arch (7.9%). The medial arch pattern is most frequently seen after awakening (67.5%) compared to other time points. Device usability was rated 7.5 out of 10 on average. This study was the first to investigate the plantar thermal patterns in the home settings, and the medial arch pattern was the most common hot area, which matches previous findings in well-controlled clinical settings. Therefore, smartphone-based thermography may be feasible as a self-assessment tool in the home setting.

Darwinian Dentistry? Social Media, Smartphones and Selfie Sticks.

The COVID-19 pandemic produced numerous challenges for clinical dentistry which necessitated adaptation and innovation. This article will illustrate the use of selfie stick devices and ring lights for dental care practitioners to create customised 'selfie' videos of them using very effective cleaning devices on the patient's own smartphone. Because these short, engaging videos are now readily available to the patient at their home it reminds them which brushes to use, where and how. Patients are empowered by these videos which put them at the centre, reinforcing the key preventive message that they can improve and maintain their oral health by introducing effective oral hygiene behaviours. The many advantages, both for patients and for their practice teams, will be discussed in detail.

Who Has Got Your Back? A Modification of Selfie Stick Examination.

We describe the use of screen mirroring, as a modification of the previously described “selfie-stick examination” method for the examination of skin lesions on the back of the patient. This would be especially useful in the context of patient initiated tele-dermatology for lesions over the back.

Selfie stick: The magic wand for social distancing during COVID-19 pandemic.

Selfie stick: The magic wand for social distancing during COVID-19 pandemic.

Robust and Efficient Estimation of Relative Pose for Cameras on Selfie Sticks.

Taking selfies has become one of the major photographic trends of our time. In this study, we focus on the selfie stick, on which a camera is mounted to take selfies. We observe that a camera on a selfie stick typically travels through a particular type of trajectory around a sphere. Based on this finding, we propose a robust, efficient, and optimal estimation method for relative camera pose between two images captured by a camera mounted on a selfie stick. We exploit the special geometric structure of camera motion constrained by a selfie stick and define this motion as spherical joint motion. Utilizing a novel parametrization and calibration scheme, we demonstrate that the pose estimation problem can be reduced to a 3-degrees of freedom (DoF) search problem, instead of a generic 6-DoF problem. This facilitates the derivation of an efficient branch-and-bound optimization method that guarantees a global optimal solution, even in the presence of outliers. Furthermore, as a simplified case of spherical joint motion, we introduce selfie motion, which has a fewer number of DoF than spherical joint motion. We validate the performance and guaranteed optimality of our method on both synthetic and real-world data. Additionally, we demonstrate the applicability of the proposed method for two applications: refocusing and stylization.

OmniPhotos

Virtual reality headsets are becoming increasingly popular, yet it remains difficult for casual users to capture immersive 360° VR panoramas. State-of-the-art approaches require capture times of usually far more than a minute and are often limited in their supported range of head motion. We introduce OmniPhotos, a novel approach for quickly and casually capturing high-quality 360° panoramas with motion parallax. Our approach requires a single sweep with a consumer 360° video camera as input, which takes less than 3 seconds to capture with a rotating selfie stick or 10 seconds handheld. This is the fastest capture time for any VR photography approach supporting motion parallax by an order of magnitude. We improve the visual rendering quality of our OmniPhotos by alleviating vertical distortion using a novel deformable proxy geometry, which we fit to a sparse 3D reconstruction of captured scenes. In addition, the 360° input views significantly expand the available viewing area, and thus the range of motion, compared to previous approaches. We have captured more than 50 OmniPhotos and show video results for a large variety of scenes. We will make our code available.

Assessment of Selfie addiction, and Selfitis among Allied Health Sciences students of a tertiary care hospital in Chennai, Tamil Nadu

A selfie is a self-portrait photograph typically taken with a camera phone held in hand or supported by a selfie stick. Studies suggest that the level of selfie addiction among youngsters has been increasing over the years. is the term that is being widely used to denote selfie addiction. This study aims at assessing the level of selfie addiction and various factors associated with it, and to evaluate the relationship between selfie addiction and addictive selfie habits. A cross-sectional study was conducted among the Allied Health Science students of a tertiary care hospital in Chennai. Two hundred seventy-three students were studied by convenient sampling method. A , validated, structured and self-administered questionnaire was given, and the desired information was elicited. Chi-square test was used to test the significance (p <0.05)A total of 287 students were studied, of which 65 (22.6%) were males, and 222 (77.4%) were females. It is observed that age, year of study, the place from which they come, place of stay and father's occupation have a statistically significant relationship with selfie addiction. Most of the selfie addictive have a female preponderance. A significant portion of the youth is in the early stage of selfie addiction. it is highly essential to spread awareness about the ill effects of selfie addiction among the youngsters to curb this addiction earlier.

Selfie stick accounts: extending and engaging visual methods in contemporary family practice

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to consider the challenges of using participant-produced photographs in family food research.Design/methodology/approachFamilies participating in a study on family dinners agreed to take photos of their weekday evening meal using their mobile phone and a Selfie-Stick. These images were subsequently used as a photo elicitation cue in a long interview.Findings“Selfies” or participant directed photographs, are a way to involve all family members in the research. Giving participants control over the composition and production of the image reveals how participants see themselves and how they wish to be seen while uncovering some of the physical, material and social realities of contemporary family practice. Photographs not only capture rich contextual and spatial details but also act as an aide memoir and interview stimulus to investigate broader socialisation around family feeding. Visual images reveal otherwise unrecalled aspects of the family dinner and encourage more reflection and discussion by participants around the social realities of their family practice. Photographs taken using a mobile phone and selfie stick complement and stimulate traditional methods of qualitative investigation.Originality/valueThe paper contributes to the debate about the challenges in using visual methods and how the selfie technique can be used, the photographs shared and visual data incorporated as part of the research method. As communicative affordances, the mobile phone, camera and selfie stick frame the practices around family dinner and afford the subject an agentic perspective as both producer and consumer of the image.

Piezoelectric “Kumihimo-gumi” sensor fabricated by braiding method using piezoelectric poly-L-lactic acid fiber

We have developed a piezoelectric braided cord consisting of a conducting fiber yarn core, piezoelectric poly-l-lactic acid (PLLA) fiber yarn and a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) middle sheath, and a conducting fiber outer shield (piezoelectric PLLA braided cord). Actually, we made various types of piezoelectric PLLA braided cords using Japanese traditional braiding method called as Kumihimo-gumi in Japanese. Furthermore, by optimization based on the calculation results for each type of piezoelectric PLLA Kumihimo-gumi obtained by the finite element method (FEM), we were able to develop a new type of piezoelectric PLLA braided cord with a sensing function for complex motion (piezoelectric PLLA Kumihimo-gumi). Finally, we developed a new wearable sensor for a selfie stick which is a popular smartphone accessory, fabricated from a piezoelectric PLLA Kumihimo-gumi.

Clinical Photography During COVID-19 with a Selfie Stick and Smart Phone.

Clinical Problem Clinical photography is an essential component and integral part of healthcare. These photographs are utilized in clinical documentation, record keeping, medical and surgical procedures, teaching, publication and research. Most often, a close proximity with the patient is unavoidable during clinical photography. With the current COVID-19 scenario, where world health organization (WHO) advocates maintaining social distancing (at least 1 m), it is difficult to take a clinical photograph (especially close-up picture of a lesion). The chance of transmission to and from the device has to be kept in mind and there is always a chance of getting self-infected through aerosol transmission.[1] Solution To avoid close proximity to the patients, a selfie stick can be put to use along with a smart phone. Taking all the universal precautions advised by world health organization (WHO), the smart phone could be mounted on the selfie stick. The stick is then extended to ascertain at least 1-m distance between the patient and the clinician [Figure 1]. The piece of selfie stick holding the phone is hinged and can be adjusted as desired. Depending on the selfie stick, the phone can be connected either with a cable or a Bluetooth. Holding it by both hands can minimize the shaking/tremor of the selfie stick. As the selfie stick and smart phone can become fomites for transmission of virus, after the photography, they should be cleaned with 60–90% isopropyl alcohol for at least 1 minute.[2] The length of selfie stick gives an idea about social distancing (>1 m) at all time during photography.Figure 1: Clinical photography of a patient with a selfie stick and smart phone, maintaining at least 1 m distance between patient and clinicianThough many smart phones with high-resolution cameras can capture good quality images from a distance, this technique gives an opportunity to take close up picture of lesions. In addition, it will be useful for those clinicians who don't have expensive, high-resolution camera smart phones. Stabilization of the selfie stick while clicking pictures will require some practice, because shaking/tremor of the selfie stick is possible even with both hands. The selfie-stick mounted smartphone can also be used by the patients to self-click pictures of difficult to access areas and use them for teledermatology consultations.[3] Declaration of patient consent The authors certify that they have obtained all appropriate patient consent forms. In the form, the patient has given his consent for his images and other clinical information to be reported in the journal. The patient understands that name and initials will not be published and due efforts will be made to conceal the identity, but anonymity cannot be guaranteed. Financial support and sponsorship Nil. Conflicts of interest There are no conflicts of interest. Acknowledgement The patient in this manuscript have given written informed consent to publication of their case details.

Immediacy pandemic: consumer problem-solving styles and adaptation strategies

Purpose This paper aims to delve into the complexity and multiplicity of consumer experiences in relation to mobile and virtual technology, and provides a lived-experience account of the Consumer Immediacy Pandemic (CIP) and related consumer experiences and responses. Design/methodology/approach Using open-ended, in-depth interviews, as well as personal essays, the research questions are addressed through the interpretive hermeneutic approach. Findings The CIP is an important, multifaceted consumer shift, whose ramifications are traceable in consumer behavior. It encompasses three consumer problem-solving styles (i.e. real-time, mobile and virtual problem-solving). Consumers adapt to the CIP through such strategies as unbundling of presence, temporal gain and synchronization, task continuity, work-fun integration and multi-tasking. Research limitations/implications With conventional theories ineffectively explaining consumer experiences with such products as smart phone, social media and selfie stick, this paper provides fruitful directions for studying consumer-technology relationships. Practical implications The findings point to untapped and novel needs rooted in consumer experience with mobile and virtual technology such as the needs for personal information management and/or professional counseling. Social implications The paper provides evidence as to a deep-seated shift in the role of technology in consumer life. Underestimating the ongoing and future success and power of mobile and virtual technology can be too costly for society at large. Originality/value This study exposes the dialogical interplay between consumer agency and structural influences that compels consumers to internalize immediacy as a taken-for-granted expectation. Such pandemic alters the ways consumers go about satisfying their needs and wants. The findings can help understand the twenty-first century consumer, theorize product agency and chart marketing and policy directions.

Preliminary Evidence Of A Relationship Between Injury And Sport Camera Use In Winter Sliding Sports

PURPOSE: The accessibility of digital technologies has led to an increased use of video cameras in sliding winter sports. However, very little is known on the risks associated with the use of such equipment. In other contexts, camera use was associated with a social facilitation effect involving an increase in performance (Yu et al., 2015). In winter sliding sports like snowboard and alpine skiing, the culture is characterized by a valorization of risk taking (Anderson, 1999). This effect could translate in greater risk taking when a camera is around (Rodrigue et al, 2012). The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between camera use and injury risk in winter sliding sports, while considering psychosocial factors associated with injuries including age, sex, perceived skill level, intentional risk taking and personality traits (impulsivity and sensation seeking). METHODS: The study was a self-reported follow-up survey conducted online among canadian winter sliding sports athletes before and after a winter ski season within an interval of 4 months. RESULTS: Among the 224 adolescents and adults (121 men and 103 women) who completed the surveys, 32,6% were aged 14-25 years, 32,3% aged 26-25 years and 36,2% aged 36 years +. Descriptive statistics indicates that 37,1% were filmed during sports practice at least once during past 12 months prior to the study an 42,0% were filmed at least once during the follow-up ski season. Among them, 25,7% reported that they take more risks when they are filmed “sometimes”, “often” or “always”. A logistic regression analysis predicting the occurrence of an injury by the end of the ski season indicates that camera use during the ski season is significantly associated with injury risk (OR = 0,25 p < 0,001) even after including psychosocial factors usually associated with injury risk in the model, including intentional risk taking, perceived skill level and sensation seeking also being significant predictors of injury. CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest a possible injury risk associated with the use of a camera on the slopes, partially explained by a social facilitation effect, but it is unclear at this moment if this risk could also involve the camera itself depending on the type of use (i.e. on a selfie stick). These results should be supported by objective data from an experimental design.

Zen and the Art of the Selfie Stick: Blogging the John Muir Trail Thru-Hiking Experience

ABSTRACTFor cultures around the world, a journey, particularly one undertaken by foot through landscapes that are simultaneously natural and cultural, is both a metaphor for the discovery of the self and the divine and an embodied practice in the physical realm. Here we analyze twenty-six publicly available blogs of thru-hikers of the John Muir Trail in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, U.S.A. Cognizant of the critiques of the intrusion of technology into wilderness areas, we examine how the communication medium of travel blogs becomes a vehicle for both self-reflection and for sharing spiritual experiences, and how the act of blogging merges virtual and corporeal communities formed among hikers. It is in the intersection of these social networks and mobile communication technologies that we find suggestions of changing relationships between a subculture of tech-savvy and highly connected hikers sometimes called “flashpackers” and the physical landscapes through which they travel.

Effect of selfie addiction on self-esteem, body image, and academic achievement among Faculty of Nursing students

Background Selfie is a self-portrait photograph, typically taken with a digital camera or a camera phone held in the hand or supported by a selfie stick. Selfies are often shared on social networking services such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Aim This study aimed to assess the effect of selfie addiction on self-esteem, body image, and academic achievement among Faculty of Nursing students. Research design A descriptive correlational design was utilized to carry out this study. Setting This study was carried out at the Faculty of Nursing, Zagazig University, in Alsharkia Governorate. Sample 137 students were recruited for this study. Tools Five tools were utilized in this study: the sociodemographic data sheet, the selfie taking behavior scale, the self-esteem scale, the body image scale, and the academic achievement scale. Results Results denoted that the sociodemographic characteristics of students, age ranged between 18 and 24 years, about three-fourths of them were females and three-fourths of them reside in rural areas. Slightly more than one-third were third-year students, whereas more than one-third were from the medical surgical nursing specialty, more than two-third were single, and the majority of them had sufficient family income. Conclusion This study concluded that three-fourths of the participants belonged to acute level from selfie behavior and there were statistically significant relations between chronic selfie behavior level and like and causes for taking selfie. There were statistically insignificant differences between levels of selfie behavior and body image, academic achievement, and self-esteem of the studied group. Recommendations This study should be replicated using different settings and cultures with a large sample size to obtain stronger evidence of its important findings.

Experimental Demonstration of Remote and Compact Imaging Spectrometer Based on Mobile Devices.

Imaging spectrometers show great potential for environmental and biomedical sensing applications. Selfie sticks, which are tools used to take photographs or videos, have gained global popularity in recent years. Few people have connected these two objects, and few people have researched the application of imaging spectrometers to perform scientific monitoring in point-of-use scenarios. In this paper, we develop a compact imaging spectrometer (35 g in weight, 18 mm in diameter, and 72 mm in length) that can be equipped on a motorized selfie stick to perform remote sensing. We applied this system to perform environmental and facial remote sensing via motorized scanning. The absorption of chlorophyll and hemoglobin can be found in the reflectance spectra, indicating that our system can be used in urban greening monitoring and point-of-care testing. In addition, this compact imaging spectrometer was also easily attached to an underwater dome port and a quad-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle to perform underwater and airborne spectral detection. Our system offers a route toward mobile imaging spectrometers used in daily life.

Development of a laparoscopic training model using a smartphone.

to develop a model of training in video-surgery, of low cost and that uses a smartphone as an image-generating source. We developed a 38cm high, 40cm wide, 40cm long hexagonal-shaped training box, with a front opening of 12x8 cm for coupling the smartphone. The internal illumination is made with LED lamps and for the support of the smartphone, we used a selfie stick, fixed in the upper part of the box, that allows control of height, distance, angulation, and the coupling of devices with different formats. We selected 20 undergraduate students without previous training in video-surgery, who performed four exercises in the box, with assessment of the time and amount of errors in the execution of the tasks. Each student completed the training for three consecutive weeks. We collected the data in spreadsheets for later analysis. Nineteen students completed the training program, with significant improvement in the times and in the number of errors. the developed model was feasible and promoted the acquisition of skills in this group of students. In addition, it presents low cost, is portable and uses common equipment, such as smartphones.

Reliability assessment of measuring active wrist pronation and supination range of motion with a smartphone

This study aimed to improve clinical examination techniques by determining the reliability of different methods to evaluate forearm movements. Two methods using the iPhone™ 5 and its gyroscope application (alone [I5] or attached to a selfie stick [ISS]) were compared with two conventional measurement devices (a plastic goniometer with a hand-held pencil [HHP] and a bubble goniometer [BG]) to evaluate the active range of movement (AROM) of the wrist during pronation and supination. Two independent groups of subjects took part in this prospective single-center diagnostic study: 20 healthy subjects and 20 patients. The four evaluation methods had high intra-observer consistency after three measurements (intra-class correlation coefficient [ICC] [3, 1] of 0.916 for the HHP; 0.944 for ISS; 0.925 for BG; 0.933 for I5) and excellent inter-observer reliability (ICC [2, k] of 0.926 for HHP; 0.934 for ISS; 0.899 for BG; 0.894 for I5), with an agreement of plus or minus 2°. When these devices are used with rigorous methodology, they are reliable for the goniometric evaluation of AROM of wrist pronation and supination.

Perceptions of selfie takers versus selfie stick users: Exploring personality and social attraction differences

This study examined the perceptions of others taking selfies in public, comparing those using selfie sticks with those taking selfies the traditional way, with their arms extended. Perceived narcissism, considerateness, and social attractiveness were the personality characteristics that were compared. Results of an online survey that asked individuals to randomly recall one of these two selfie-taking methods found that only social attraction varied by condition: participants who recalled others using selfie sticks perceived those individuals to be less socially attractive than individuals who used the traditional selfie-taking method. These findings are considered in relation to public perceptions of selfies.

Ethnography, Objects and Reflexivity: A Case Study of the Selfie Stick

In her paper on Ethnography, Objects and Reflexivity: A Case Study of the Selfie Stick Jessamy Perriam focuses on how objects of a rather faddish nature such as the selfie-stick might be observed from a Science and Technology Studies perspective with the concept of disconcertment and an autoethnographic and ethnomethodological approach. The latter in terms of doing a breaching experiment. Perriam argues for the co-existence of discourses on the selfie-stick from strong rejection by journalists and the public to broad attention and wide use in everyday life. The former relate its use to narcissism and potential harm and the latter to its representations for social media platforms such as Instagram and Twitter. The selfie-stick and the specific images it produces may be understood as enabling a multi-layered socio-technical assemblage of (non-) human relations, existing in both material and digital field sites.

A response by Franziska Weidle

A response by Franziska Weidle to Jessamy Perriam's Ethnography, Objects and Reflexivity: A Case Study of the Selfie Stick