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The emergence of life-logging technologies has led neuropsychologist to focus on
understanding how this new technology could help patients with memory disorders.
Despite the growing number of studies using life-logging technologies, a
theoretical framework supporting its effectiveness is lacking.
This review
focuses on the use of life-logging in the context of memory rehabilitation,
particularly the use of SenseCam, a wearable camera allowing passive image
capture. In our opinion, reviewing SenseCam images can be effective for memory
rehabilitation only if it provides more than an assessment of prior occurrence in
ways that reinstates previous thoughts, feelings and sensory information, thus
stimulating recollection. Considering the fact that, in memory impairment,
self-initiated processes are impaired, we propose that the environmental support
hypothesis can explain the value of SenseCam for memory retrieval. Twenty-five
research studies were selected for this review and despite the general acceptance
of the value of SenseCam as a memory technique, only a small number of studies
focused on recollection. We discuss the usability of this tool to improve
episodic memory and in particular, recollection.
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