Today’s breakout session preview for the upcoming QS conference is from Nick Gammell, a pioneer in the bright QS startup world. Here is Nick describing his session “How to separate user feedback signal from noise and incorporate into your product:” — A couple years ago when I started GAIN Fitness, I began asking more experienced entrepreneurs and…
Jason Lankow, author of the book “Infographics: The Power of Visual Storytelling,” describes his upcoming session for QS Conference 2012.
Daniel Gartenberg, organizer of the Washington DC QS meetup group, describes his session for QS Conference 2012: “Is QS Science? The Role of QS in Scientific Discovery.”
Steve Fowkes, a QS regular, describes his session for QS Conference 2012: “pH tracking for learning about inflammation, sleep, and mental performance.”
In this preview for QS12, Marcin Kowrygo, organizer of QS Poland, describes his session “Your Blue Room: The Neuroscience of Ideation.”
Jakob Eg Larsen and Yoni Donner, who have both created tools for quantifying mental performance, describe their session for QS Conference 2012: “Cognitive Measurements.”
Martin Sona, organizer of QS Aachen/Maastricht, describes his session for QS Conference 2012: “EEG for Self-Experimentation.”
The third Quantified Self Conference is only 87 days away!! So we thought we’d release the program of awesome talks and sessions that will be given by QS community members. Check out the full list below, and please remember to register soon if you’d like to come – there are only 100 out of 600…
We’re excited to announce another new batch of sessions at the upcoming QS conference. Thanks to everyone who is stepping up to speak! The full roster of show&tell talks and breakout sessions so far is listed here. Check out these awesome new topics: Breakout Conversations Is QS science? The role of QS in scientific discovery (Daniel Gartenberg)…
We’re excited to announce another new batch of sessions at the upcoming QS conference. Thanks to everyone who is stepping up to speak! The full roster of show&tell talks and breakout sessions so far is listed here. Check out these awesome new topics: Breakout Conversations How to separate user feedback signal from noise and incorporate into product…
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?…
We’re excited to announce another new batch of talks and sessions at the upcoming QS conference. Thanks to everyone who is stepping up to speak! The full roster of show&tell talks and breakout sessions so far is listed here. Check out these awesome new topics: Show&Tell Talks Accounting for Taste: Creating a Highly Reliable Palate (Toli…
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…
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…
We’re excited to announce another new batch of talks and sessions at the upcoming QS conference. Thanks to everyone who is stepping up to speak! Check out these awesome topics: Show&Tell Talks Genes and Other Strangers (Esther Dyson) Tracking Breathing with Wearables (Danielle Roberts) Chronicling chronic lower back pain, posture, and happiness (Andrew Chang) The Quantified…
Ulrich Atz was curious about measuring his stress levels. He chose three methods to do this: experience sampling, day reconstruction method, and heart rate. In the video below, he helpfully describes how he went about designing his experiment, how the different methods work and the challenges of each one, and what he learned. He was…
We’re excited to announce a new batch of talks and sessions at the upcoming QS conference. Thanks to everyone who is stepping up to speak! Check out these awesome topics: Show&Tell Talks My 28-Hour Day Experiments (Joe Betts-LaCroix) Quantified Awesome: Tracking Time, Clothes, Stuff, and Other Little Things (Sacha Chua) World class performance through sleep quantification…
This is a “mark your calendars” post to let you know about some fun QS-related stuff coming up that’s not sold out yet! March 20 – The Uploaded Life: Personal evolution through self tracking — MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB) event, Stanford GSB Cemex Auditorium 6:00 – 7:00 pm Demos, Networking and Refreshments; 7:00 – 8:30 pm…
Kiel Gilleade researches physiological computing. He streams his heart rate data to Twitter, live, 24 hours a day. Over the course of a year, he learned how his heart rate responded to different events, dietary intake, and changes in routine. He was also surprised to learn that he didn’t get up until 8 am! His friends and…
We’re excited to announce the first batch of talks and sessions at the upcoming QS conference. Thanks to everyone who is stepping up to speak! Check out these awesome topics: Show&Tell Talks Data Doesn’t Lie: Orgasm vs. Performance (Dave Asprey) Stress relief with a biofeedback game (Olivier Janin) QS+1 Lessons learned from assisting in trading…
