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Relevant past events can be remembered when visualizing related pictures. The main difficulty is how to find these photos in a large personal collection. Query definition and image annotation are key issues to overcome this problem. The former is relevant due to the diversity of the clues provided by our memory when recovering a past moment and the later because images need to be annotated with information regarding those clues to be retrieved. Consequently, tools to recover past memories should deal carefully with these two tasks. This paper describes a user interface designed to explore pictures from personal memories. Users can query the media collection in several ways and for this reason an iconic visual language to define queries is proposed. Automatic and semi-automatic annotation is also performed using the image content and the audio information obtained when users show their images to others. The paper also presents the user interface evaluation based on tests with 58 participants.
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Jesus, R., Romão, T., Correia, N. (2011). An Interface to Retrieve Personal Memories Using an Iconic Visual Language. In: Pan, Z., Cheok, A.D., Müller, W., Yang, X. (eds) Transactions on Edutainment V. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6530. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18452-9_18
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