A Programmatic Approach to Perfect

Happiness

Quantified Self Meetup Group

August 15, 2012Portland, OR

Amber Casehttp://caseorganic.com/wiki/

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Of all of the newest technologies for finding friends or dating. "I have many friends,

I have a wife" at the end of it all, the person I know least

about is myself.

- Jon Lebkowsky

Example: The SIMS

Example: Harvard Happiness Project

Making the Invisible Visible

Example: Aaron Parecki’s

GPS Map of Portland

Approaching awareness

with technology

Kids are totally and completely

aware

Calm TechnologyMark Weiser

• Calm technology • Actions as buttons• Invisible interfaces• Trigger-based

interactions

Haptic Compass http://www.sensebridge.net

Haptic Location

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Real-time location-based gamingslideshare.net/

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Insomnia at age 4

Watching my dad’s computer + processes

Shutting down the brain

Just like a computer (shut

down)

Then: disk defragmentation

Disk Defragmentation

Fragmentation in Daily Life

Information Junk Food

My Brain Today

I’ve become a Skinnerian Rat

Intermittent reinforcement

Loss of the ability to mentally defragment

Mental DefragmentationMemory compression and sorting

Derek ZumbachAlpha Wave Synchrony

Feedback Machine

Quantified Self

Making the invisible visible

Conclusions and Future

A programmatic approach to perfect happiness?

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