A central goal of Personal Imaging is best captured in the following quote:
The technologies for recording events lead to a curious result... Vicarious experience, even for those who were there. In this context ``vicarious'' means to experience an event through the eyes (or the recording device) of another. Yet here we have the real experiencer and the vicarious experiencer being the same person, except that the real experiencer didn't have the original experience because of all the activity involved in recording it for the latter, vicarious experience...we are so busy manipulating, pointing, adjusting, framing, balancing, and preparing that the event disappears... But there is a positive side to the use of recording devices: situations where the device intensifies the experience. Most of the time this takes place only with less sophisticated artifacts: the sketch pad, the painter's canvas... Those who benefit from these intensifying artifacts are usually artists...with these artifacts, the act of recording forces us to look and experience with more intensity and enjoyment than might otherwise be the case. -Don Norman[1]