Topic Archives: Videos

Sarah Lewington and Michelle Hughes on Empathic Design

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Alexandra Carmichael

Sarah Lewington and Michelle Hughes study and teach fashion communication at Nottingham Trent University. In the 5-minute Ignite talk below, they talk about designing with empathy for a project they’re doing with Unilever, with more questions than answers, such as: what is the relative importance of data and functionality vs. emotional attachment to a device? What do you think? (Filmed at the QS Europe conference in Amsterdam.)

The impact of self-tracking on empathic design and market research by Sarah Lewington & Michelle Huges from Quantified Self Amsterdam on Vimeo.

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Hugo Campos on Going Vegan in December

Posted on April 28, 2012 by Alexandra Carmichael

Hugo Campos lives with arrhythmia, and is a self-professed data nudist. He decided to do an experiment last December to improve his health and his heart – going vegan and taking beautiful pictures of every single meal he ate to post to a public Flickr set. In the video below, Hugo gives an animated talk about what inspired him, what challenges he faced, and what he learned. Find out if he’s decided to continue eating vegan! (Filmed by the Bay Area QS Show&Tell meetup group.)

Hugo Campos – Going Vegan in December from Gary Wolf on Vimeo.

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Gareth MacLeod on Holistic Tracking and Correlations

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Alexandra Carmichael

Gareth MacLeod is a developer/entrepreneur interested in making QS techniques easy to incorporate into daily life. He built an app that sends him text messages to ask about his sleep, mood, romantic encounters, tooth brushing, etc. He then looks for correlations among the different data streams, and even spent 100 hours building a correlation heat map. In the video below, Gareth talks about how to engineer the perfect day, and interesting things he has learned, like if he watches TV before bed, he feels grumpy the next day. (Filmed by the Toronto QS Show&Tell meetup group.)

Gareth MacLeod – Holistic Correlational Tracking from Gary Wolf on Vimeo.

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Beau Gunderson on Online Activity Aggregation

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Alexandra Carmichael

In this talk, Beau Gunderson shares a way to bring all of your disparate data sets, from Facebook to Twitter to Foursquare to Zeo to Fitbit to Runkeeper, together in one collection to be accessed through simple APIs. It’s part of an open source development effort called The Locker Project. The hope is to be able to see new patterns and correlations by bringing these sources of data together. Beau learned some interesting things about himself, and had fun playing with different questions he had about his data. (Filmed by the Seattle QS Show&Tell meetup group.)

Beau Gunderson: Online Activity Aggregation from David Reeves on Vimeo.

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Denisa Kera on DNA Dinners

Posted on April 22, 2012 by Alexandra Carmichael

Denisa Kera is a professor, philosopher and designer interested in DNA and food data. She asks, what happens when people share data in social situations? She organizes DNA Dinners at a local hackerspace to experiment with this question. In the video below, Denisa talks about how she turned her genetic data into a bruschetta dish, what other kinds of data she wants to include in future dinners, and why she’s questioning whether or not to publicly share her data. (Filmed by the Singapore QS Show&Tell meetup group.)

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James Stout on Diabetes, Exercise, and QS

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Ernesto Ramirez

James Stout is a professional cyclist. He also has Type 1 Diabetes. In this Show & Tell, James explains how self-tracking has empowered him to understand himself and be a role model for others. Truly inspiring. (Filmed by the San Diego QS Show&Tell meetup group.)

QS San Diego: James Stout – Diabetes, Exercise, and Quantified Self from Ernesto Ramirez on Vimeo.

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Chloe Fan on Visualizing Movies She Has Seen Since 2001

Posted on April 15, 2012 by Alexandra Carmichael

Chloe Fan has kept all of her movie ticket stubs since 2001. Inspired by a minimalism streak, she digitized them all and created some cool visualizations. She learned her movie-watching patterns: by day of week, time of day, IMDB movie rating, price, location, who she was with, etc. In the video below, Chloe walks through her most embarrassing movies, how her tastes have changed over time, and other fun things. You can check out her visualizations here. (Filmed by the Pittsburgh QS Show&Tell meetup group.)

Chloe Fan – Movies I’ve Seen in Theaters Since 2001 from Quantified Self Pittsburgh on Vimeo.

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Richard Ryan: Notes From a Year of Biohacking

Posted on April 14, 2012 by Alexandra Carmichael

Richard Ryan was inspired by the first QS conference to spend a year hacking his life. He most wanted to solve his problems with insomnia, obesity, Ambien dependence, hypertension, and drinking alcohol – what he calls “classic New Yorker problems.” In the video below, Richard talks about the changes he made to his lifestyle, rules of thumb he discovered, and the amazing progress he has made. (Filmed by the New York QS Show&Tell meetup group.)

Richard Ryan – Notes Toward a Biohacking Handbook from Steven Dean on Vimeo.

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Jakob Larsen: My Experience with a Smartphone Brainscanner

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Alexandra Carmichael

 Jakob Larsen and his team at the Mobile Informatics Lab at the Technical University of Denmark have developed a way to build a real-time 3-D model of your brain using a smartphone and the Emotiv EPOC game controller headset. In the Ignite talk below, Jakob describes how the fourteen sensors in this mobile EEG device rival a traditional lab EEG setup, and where he sees this inspiring project going. (Filmed at the QS Europe conference in Amsterdam.)

My experience with a smartphone brainscanner by Jakob Eg Larsen from Quantified Self Amsterdam on Vimeo.

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Simon Frid on Wearable Awareness

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Alexandra Carmichael

Simon Frid moved to California last year because his data told him he was smarter here than in New York. Well, not really. But this funny story begins his journey of figuring out how to track one of the simplest things that we don’t generally know about ourselves: our own posture. Simon designed a wearable sensor shirt with ten built-in accelerometers, and was able to improve his posture significantly from December to January. In the video below, he shares how he trained the shirt to recognize good posture, why he didn’t want immediate feedback, and what question he most wants to ask people. (Filmed by the Bay Area QS Show&Tell meetup group.)

Simon Frid – Wearable Awareness from Gary Wolf on Vimeo.

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