SLOG: smartphone-based semantic lifelogging framework for digital prosthetic memory development

The advancements in sensors, processing, storage and networking technologies have turned smartphone into de facto lifelogging device. Realizing the lifelogging potential of smartphone, researchers have postulated with smartphone-based lifelogging systems with varying capabilities of capturing and storing information about peoples’ daily life activities, behaviors, interactions, locations, environments, etc., into their lifelog archives. However, the systems are lacking with several capturing, storing, retrieving and design issues, importantly not organizing the lifelog information with the same semantics as they exist in the real world and encoded in human episodic memory. The semantic organization of lifelog information will develop a true digital prosthetic memory to solve problems in different real-world domains including memory augmentation. In this paper, we have presented the architecture and implementation of Semantic LifelOGging (SLOG) framework for smartphone-based semantic lifelogging using Semantic Web technologies. The SLOG framework incorporates smartphone sensors and processing capabilities, and Semantic Web technologies to develop a semantically enriched digital prosthetic memory on smartphone. The semantic lifelog data model is developed by extending SmartOntoSensor ontology with relevant concepts and properties to represent, store and relate lifelog and contextual information. The semantic lifelog data model will provide contextual semantics to organize, annotate and relate lifelog information like human episodic memory and provide enough contextual cues to recall lifelog information like associative recall in human memory. The proof-of-concept applications are developed to show practicality of the SLOG framework. The quantitative and empirical evaluations have shown the SLOG framework and system has improved features and is acceptable in usability and effectiveness.