Cathal Gurrin | |
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Born | Dublin |
Nationality | Irish |
Occupation(s) | Lifelogger and Associate Professor |
Known for | Extensive personal database of lifelog images and their interpretation |
Cathal Gurrin is an Irish Professor and lifelogger.[1][2] He is the Head of the Adapt Centre at Dublin City University, a Funded Investigator of the Insight Centre,[3] and the director of the Human Media Archives research group. He was previously the deputy head of the School of Computing.
His interests include personal analytics and lifelogging. He publishes in information retrieval (IR) with a particular focus on how people access information from pervasive computing devices.[4] He has captured a continuous personal digital memory since 2006 using a wearable camera and logged hundreds of millions of other sensor readings.[5]