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What We Are Reading
Steven Jonas
April 11, 2015
What We Are Reading Newsletter from Apr 11, 2015
Tag: design
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Cors Brinkman: Lifelog as Self-Portrait
Ernesto Ramirez
August 18, 2014
Cors Brinkman is a media artist and student. In June of 2013, he started a project to keep track of himself. He decided to start with LifeSlice, a tool to have your computer keep track of your behavior by taking a picture, screenshot, and location data every hour. After experimenting with that system Cors added…
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Temple of Self: A QS Masters Design Thesis
Alexandra Carmichael
August 11, 2012
Aarti Vashisht has done some interesting QS-related work for her MFA at Art Center College Design. She designed some prototype sensors that could be worn on our bodies in the future, and interviewed people to learn their thoughts on how these integrated sensors might impact their lives. This is an image of the sensors she…
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Sarah Lewington and Michelle Hughes on Empathic Design
Alexandra Carmichael
May 5, 2012
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?…
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Randy Sargent on Tomatoes and Irritability
Alexandra Carmichael
March 28, 2012
Randy Sargent has an hypothesis that eating certain foods, like tomatoes, makes him irritable and anxious. He asked himself, “How can I structure an experiment on myself so that I don’t know whether I’m eating tomatoes or not?” and “How would I go about quantifying my irritability?” In the video below, he explores ways to…
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Announcing: the Quantified Self Forum
Alexandra Carmichael
July 18, 2011
By popular request, we have just launched a global QS forum at: http://forum.quantifiedself.com/ Gary, Dan Dascalescu, and I took some exciting topics from the conference and turned them into forum discussions, with expert moderators to help explore ideas and answer questions. You’ll find discussions on: – Apps & Tools, moderated by Dan Dascalescu – Data Ownership & Privacy,…
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User Generated Health
Alexandra Carmichael
March 19, 2011
A guest post from Chris Hogg on the value of user-generated data and its ability to reconnect us to our bodies and our health.
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Stanford Students Design for Lifelogging
Alexandra Carmichael
March 7, 2011
Next Monday, Stanford students will show off their designs around lifelogging and mobile sensing. Here is the announcement from Jeff Heer, Stanford professor and Quantified Self advisory board member: We’re having an action-packed year in the Stanford HCI program — in addition to celebrating the program’s 20th anniversary, we’re presenting a number of exciting new…
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Matt Cottam on Designing QS Projects
Alexandra Carmichael
December 19, 2010
From the Amsterdam QS Show&Tell group: Matt Cottam talks about many of the cool personal informatics and biosensing projects designed by his company, Tellart. Some prototype projects include creative ways to encourage people to take breaks at work, remote teddy bears to connect the elderly with their families, a breath alcohol sensor for the iPhone,…
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Robert Rabinovitz on Mapping the Design Process of a Brain Seizure
Alexandra Carmichael
November 18, 2010
From the New York QS Show&Tell group: Robert Rabinovitz, a design teacher at the Parsons New School of Design and a designer himself, mapped the 40-minute period on January 19, 2007 when he experienced his first brain seizure. He takes us through his gripping story, moment by moment, with images of what he saw that…
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How to Design for Behavior Change
Alexandra Carmichael
July 17, 2010
How do I quit smoking, or start a running program? Drink tea instead of coffee, or eat more vegetables and less sugar? What about focusing on one task at a time instead of checking my RSS reader every 20 minutes? If you are facing questions like this in your life or as part of your…
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What’s your idea to BodyShock the Future?
Alexandra Carmichael
July 2, 2010
A post calling for Quantified Self entries to Institute for the Future’s contest, BodyShock: ideas to transform lifestyles and the human body to improve health in the next decade.
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When Games Invade Real Life
Alexandra Carmichael
June 21, 2010
What happens when self-tracking and games are pervasive? Jesse Schell, author of The Art of Game Design and instructor at Carnegie Mellon University, gave a shocking talk at the 2010 Dice Summit. With dark enthusiasm, he explored the question: if passive sensors become ubiquitous in the world around us, will everyday life turn into a…
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Future of Personal Informatics Design
Gary Wolf
April 12, 2010
Over the weekend some of the most interesting designers working in the field of personal informatics gathered in Atlanta in advance of the ACM conference on human-computer interaction. At a workshop called “Know Thyself: Monitoring and Reflecting on Facets of One’s Life,” they presented research proposals and tentative conclusions about the future of personal informatics…
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Reframing Health: Design Your Own Well-Being
Gary Wolf
March 10, 2010
QS is not going to become another health care blog, but I wanted to promote these excellent slides out of the comments section from the previous post on Quantified Self business models. Rajiv Mehta and Hugh Dubberly gave a talk recently that will be valuable to anybody thinking about QS in the context of health….
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Results of the Personal Informatics Survey
Ian Li
February 9, 2010
In the summer of 2009, I posted a survey of personal informatics tools on The Quantified Self, Flowing Data, and forums at personal informatics sites like Slife and MoodJam. Many people participated describing their experiences using existing tools to track and reflect on personal information. The survey helped us develop a model to describe personal…
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Top 38 Data Blogs to Watch
Alexandra Carmichael
May 7, 2009
Nathan Yau at the FlowingData blog has compiled a list of “37 Data-ish Blogs You Should Know About.” His list includes blogs on statistics, visualizations, maps, design, and “others worth noting,” a category that includes our own Quantified Self blog. Thanks Nathan! (Adding Nathan’s blog to the list makes 38.) Happy RSS-ing!