Erica Tanamachi

March 10, 2016

From The Quantified Self Public Health Symposium

How do you study yourself when you’re not looking? Brian Levine is the co-founder of Tap2, the creator of younlocked, a unique self-assessment tool that helps individuals collect self-report data by asking questions during the phone unlocking process. By answering almost 10,000 questions during a six-month period Brian was able to find out: “Why am I so tired, and why can’t I be in a better mood?” By connecting self-assessment to the phone unlocking gesture, which is performed many times a day, Brian created a novel form of self-observation. In this short talk Brian shares some details about his rich self-collected data set that, as well as a method that, if widely adopted, could be the foundation for many new personal and public health discoveries.

Watch Brian’s video on Medium.