Cathal Gurrin

Cathal Gurrin
Born
Dublin
NationalityIrish
Occupation(s)Lifelogger and Associate Professor
Known forExtensive 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]

  1. ^ "Through The Wormhole: Auxiliary Memory". The Science Channel. Archived from the original on 19 January 2014. Retrieved 27 January 2014.
  2. ^ Baker, Stephen. "This Is Your Lifelog". Business Week (Bloomberg). Archived from the original on 9 September 2009. Retrieved 27 January 2014.
  3. ^ "Insight Centre Team Cathal Gurrin".
  4. ^ "Open Access Research Repository - DORAS DCU". Archived from the original on 8 May 2014. Retrieved 27 January 2014.
  5. ^ "Publications - School of Computing". Dublin City University. Archived from the original on 8 May 2014. Retrieved 27 January 2014.