Geospatial access to lifelogging photos in virtual reality
Hurst, Wolfgang, Ouwehand, Kevin, Mengerink, Marijn, Duane, AaronORCID: 0000-0002-9825-1654 and Gurrin, CathalORCID: 0000-0003-2903-3968
(2018)
Geospatial access to lifelogging photos in virtual reality.
In: 2018 ACM Workshop on The Lifelog Search Challenge (LSC'18), 11 June 2018, Tokyo, Japan.
ISBN 978-1-4503-5796-8
We present a virtual reality system for accessing geotagged photos taken with a lifelogging camera. Photos are spatially located on a world map that can be explored with a head-mounted display. Using a virtual reality headset allows users to easily and intuitively explore this large information space. Images are initially represented by icons but become visible once a user gets closer to a particular area of interest. While not suitable for all search tasks, this visualisation has benefits in situations where location plays a significant role; be it because the actual content is location-related or because the owner of the lifelog remembers and associates the related event with certain places. Likewise, our spatial representation of the data often implicitly reveals a temporal relationship, which can be helpful in the search process as well.