Cathal Gurrin is a lifelogger and lecturer at the School of Computing, at Dublin City University, a visiting researcher at the University of Tromsø, a visiting scholar at the University of Tsukuba, the director of the Human Media Archives research group and a Funded Investigator in the Insight Centre for Data AnalyticsHis interests include personal analytics and lifelogging.
He publishes in a wide range of areas including information retrieval (IR) with a particular focus on how people access information from mobile devices (MHCIR).
He has captured a personal digital memory since 2006 using a camera mounted on his chest and created hundreds of millions of other sensor readings.