I have often wondered what kinds of answers are locked in my digital photo collection. It has long been said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but when the picture is our own, surely it’s also worth a thousand memories. A large collection, therefore, must also have a correspondingly large amount of memories. But what exactly does a collection know? Does it know how many trips I’ve taken...

As the photography world shifted from film cameras into digital cameras, computers now play a significant role in managing people’s photographs or, if you will, memories. Photos are stored, shared, searched and viewed — all in digital format. Managing large personal collections of digital photographs is an increasingly difficult task. As the rate of digital acquisition rises, storage becomes ch...

Research is currently ongoing to investigate the use of assistive technology by people with mild dementia to support independent living at home. The aim of this study was to describe professional caregivers’ perceptions on the prerequisites for and consequences of people with mild dementia using a digital photo diary to facilitate their talks about daily events with their family members. A ques...

Background: Early and non-invasive determination of blood glucose level is of great importance. We aimed to present a new technique to accurately infer the blood glucose concentration in peripheral blood flow using non-invasive optical monitoring system. Methods: The data for the research were obtained from 900 individuals. Of them, 750 people had diabetes mellitus (DM). The system was ...

Digital photography has not only changed the nature of photography and the photographic process, but also the manner in which we share photographs and tell stories about them. Some traditional methods, such as the family photo album or passing piles of recently developed photos, are lost to us without requiring the digital photos to be printed. We have developed a social interface allowing peop...

In recent years there has been a tremendous increase in the demand for digital imagery. Applications include consumer electronics Kodak’s Photo-CD, HDTV, SHDTV, and Sega’s CD-ROM video game , medical imaging digital radiography , video-conferencing and scientific visualization. The problem inherent to any digital image or digital video system is the large bandwidth required for transmission or ...

A multitude of application domains benefit from synchronized multimedia content presentation and playback across spatially scattered client stations. Online remote tutoring, telework and teleconferencing, and the nonco-located synchronous browsing through a digital photo album are merely some examples of potential use cases, which are referred to collectively as real-time distributed groupware....