Along with 100+ other QS’ers I participated in the Quantified Self Bay Area Meetup #29 in Berkeley tonight, as well as enjoyed the nice view from Skydeck in Berkeley.
But of course enjoyed most the quite varied mix of show&tell talks and interesting conversations with people deeply engaged in self-tracking – to understand the phenomenon deeper.
My contribution to the Google #ifihadglass competition:
#ifihadglass I would combine it with our smartphone brain scanner for real-time monitoring and feedback about relaxation, levels of stress and alertness, and emotional response #ifihadglass
Together with Yoni Donner (who’s behind Quantified Mind) I did a breakout session on the topic Cognitive Measurements at the Quantified Self Conference at Stanford.
Our motivation was to put more emphasis on cognitive measurements in the QS community saying that measuring cognitive functions is difficult but provides a much richer understanding of ourselves compared to single-dimension measurements (such as steps taken, heart-rate and weight) that have been the primary focus of the QS community…
I’m now a visiting scholar at Stanford University where I join the Calming Technology Lab to work on aspects of personal informatics and quantified self for future pervasive and wearable computing/sensing systems.
Presentation of research paper “A Cross-Platform Smartphone Brain Scanner” at CHI 2012. The Personal Informatics in Practice: Improving Quality of Life Through Data workshop will be a gathering of researchers, designers, and practitioners exploring how to better support personal informatics in people’s everyday lives.
Authors of articles for the Personal Informatics in Practice workshop at CHI 2012 in Austin, TX on May 6, 2012 have been invited to write a summary for the Quantified Self Blog. Our Blog Guest Post is a summary of our paper “A Cross-Platform Smartphone Brain Scanner”. It is authored by Jakob Eg Larsen, Arkadiusz Stopczynski, Carsten Stahlhut, Michael Kai Petersen, and Lars Kai Hansen.
The workshop will be a gathering of researchers, designers, and practitioners exploring how to better support personal informatics in people’s everyday lives.
I presented our Smartphone Brain Scanner at the first Quantified Self Conference in Europe. Since I believe in the eating your own dog food mantra I was wearing the neuroheadset and using the smartphone brain scanner while giving my short Ignite Talk.
If you thought giving an Ignite Talk was stressful (a 5 minute presentation accompanied by 20 slides each displayed for 15 seconds, and the slides automatically advance) then try giving a live demonstration of your research prototype meanwhile :-)
Feeling like a rock star was during the break after the presentation where I got to talk to so many interesting people from the quantified self community that were interested in our research.
An article in the danish newspaper Information discuss how “Electronics keeps an eye on your sleep and diet”. The article discuss how technologies including mobile phones and mobile applications can support people in self-monitoring of weight, exercise, sleep, etc. also in a social context. In addition how these types of applications are also turned into games to make the activities fun and motivating.
