Posts Tagged ‘QS11’

Quantified Self & Privacy: some brief thoughts before the breakout session

November 26th, 2011

Today at 3 (in Heidelberg) I’m running a breakout session on QS & Privacy: How can we ensure privacy as we share our data stories? What rights and responsibilities do we have? Where is the public-prviate boundary?

Here are a few provocative thoughts from conversations so far today.

Body Blogger Kiel Gilleade talked about heartrate this morning:

My boss called me to ask whether I was working on a deadline because my heart rate was in the green zone rather than in the red zone like the last paper-writing deadline.

He observes: situational & contextual info is crucial for interpretation.

Tom Hume tweeted:

You don’t control your identity. It’s manufactured by those around you. #qs2011

Joshua Kauffman tweeted:

There is no such thing as personal health data. All matters of health are socially shared and derived. #qs2011

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Exercise & Weight tracking, Quantified Self Europe

November 26th, 2011

My talk on exercise and weight tracking at QuantifiedSelfEurope was video’d and will be world-viewable on the Quantified Self blog at some point in the future.

So far being visible has been beneficial, so despite the challenge, I’m sharing slides. As I said during the talk, an exercise monitor is something of a conversation piece: to ask a fat person “Are you trying to lose weight?” is generally rude. But an exercise monitor has been a point of entry to me for useful conversations and interesting ideas (like weight averaging and tracking tools).

I’ll add video when that’s available.

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Quantified Self Europe, Saturday morning.

November 26th, 2011

What is this Quantified Self stuff, anyway? Here’s a brief intro (prettier PDF version) Nathan Yau and I wrote.

This weekend I’m in Amsterdam for Quantified Self Europe. So far this morning I’ve met Arduino hackers, seen several talks about monitoring heart rate (continuously, cool, or even with swimming goggles) and lung capacity. Oh, and given a talk about Exercise and Weight tracking.

There’s lots of blogging/photoblogging going on. Twitter hashtag (formerly #QSelfEurope) is #QS2011.

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