Today’s Session on

The Quantified Self

by Manuel Kraus

What’s happening today?

- What is QS?

- What is it for?

- some specific areas

- personal QS experiment

QS IS ABOUT…

Measuring Yourself• Self-Knowledge through numbers– Analyze trends and set goals for self-improvement

• Recording of daily activities– Fitness– Sleep– Activity– …

• Self-analytics, self hacking, lifelogging, body hacking,…

What gets measured gets managed.Peter Drucker

Askmeevery.com

TRACKING YOUR FITNESS

Runtastic

Jawbone up!

Jawbone up!

Jawbone up!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3xk48GsPIg&feature=player_embedded

SLEEP TRACKING

Measuring Your Sleep

Measuring Your Sleep

Or alternatively: Sleep Cycle

Or: Sleep as Android

FOOD TRACKING

Chef Sleeve

• Smart Food Scale

• http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chefsleeve/smart-food-scale-less-about-weight-more-about-you

MEASURING BRAINWAVES

Measuring Your Brainwaves

Measuring Yourself

HEALTHCARE

‚DO WE NEED DOCTORS OR ALGORITHMS?‘

Vinod Khosla

• “Health care is like witchcraft and just based on tradition.”

• Health care must be more data driven and about wellness, not sick care.

• 80 % of doctors could be replaced by machines.

• Possible to replace:

doctor’s experienceintuitiontherapeutic touch and listening ?

AliveCor

Inside Tracker

• http://www.insidetracker.com/tour/#tabs-1

Cellscope

Star Trek‘s Tricorder?

Scanadu Scout

Scanadu measures

• vital signs

• Temperature

• ECG

• heart rate

• oximetry

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/scanadu-scout-the-first-medical-tricorder

SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING

• Can tracking your mood improve your mood, or make life easier in some way?

• Is there any evidence of this?

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LUMOback

• http://lumoback.com/

MoodPanda

W/Me Wristband

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/723246920/finally-a-wearable-device-that-can-improve-your-li

Measuring Neurotransmitters?

OUR DNA

23andme

low-cost individual DNA genotyping

• Founder: Anne Wojcicki

• Genotyping ≈ Sequencing

• Know what you at risk for

• Big data -> more insight

23andme

• Reports on health conditions and traits

• Testing for inherited conditions

• Discover your ancestry composition

• Updates on your DNA as science advances

OTHERS

What else to check out:

• http://www.quantified-mind.com/• http://www.cardiio.com/• http://goodtohear.co.uk/happiness

Movie on Quantified Self:

• https://vimeo.com/61947763

PERSONAL EXPERIMENTS

Measured Me

• Measuredme.com

• Personal experiment

• Life optimization

Measuring Willpower

Measuring Creativity

• Fluency (how many solutions were introduced to the problem)

• Flexibility (how diverse were these solutions)

• Originality (how well do these solutions stand out)

• Elaboration (amount of detail)

Measuring Creativity

That’s it