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Andrew Hessel

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Feb 17, 2010, 9:25:40 PM2/17/10
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I've been really fascinated by the Quantified Self movement.  This is an entertaining example of how life statistics can be presented.

http://vimeo.com/9117064

Bryan Bishop

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Feb 17, 2010, 9:56:11 PM2/17/10
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Have you met fenn yet? He was my room mate for a while. He presented
at one of the previous Quantified Self meetups a few weeks ago.

http://fennetic.net/sleep/
for instance: http://fennetic.net/sleep/cairo.html

I think you talked with him over the phone once. And then my "meet log" ...

http://designfiles.org/~bryan/meetlog/2009-10-01_to_2010-03-01.png

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Andrew Hessel

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Feb 17, 2010, 10:02:49 PM2/17/10
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I don't think I've met Fenn in person.  Great data logging, love the graphical representation.  Getting this type of information without logging is key.  This ties in with pharma needs as well.

Andrew



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Bryan Bishop

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Feb 17, 2010, 10:05:43 PM2/17/10
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On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Andrew Hessel wrote:
> I don't think I've met Fenn in person.  Great data logging, love the
> graphical representation.  Getting this type of information without logging
> is key.  This ties in with pharma needs as well.

He's been building a wearable computer setup, in particular to keep
better track of himself. He has often talked about adding in
electrocardio data to his wearable computer, to at least get pulse
data, blood pressure, etc. There are other types of data I am sure he
would be interested in.

Andrew Hessel

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Feb 17, 2010, 10:09:28 PM2/17/10
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He's been building a wearable computer setup, in particular to keep
better track of himself. He has often talked about adding in
electrocardio data to his wearable computer, to at least get pulse
data, blood pressure, etc. There are other types of data I am sure he
would be interested in.

I have a wearable computer called an iPhone.  It just needs to be utilized better.

 

Bryan Bishop

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Feb 17, 2010, 10:20:41 PM2/17/10
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I've been working on an iphone app that helps people figure out
infectious disease spread based off of which people came into contact
with which other people in a large organization (indoor localization /
triangulation). There's not much you can do with an iphon without
adding external devices, especially when it comes to blood
measurements and immune system stuff. :-( The alternative- of a small,
full computer like a beagleboard (check it out, it's pretty neat)
isn't that much of a hasttle. It's worth exploring.

Andrew Hessel

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Feb 17, 2010, 11:11:15 PM2/17/10
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I've been working on an iphone app that helps people figure out
infectious disease spread based off of which people came into contact
with which other people in a large organization (indoor localization /
triangulation). There's not much you can do with an iphon without
adding external devices, especially when it comes to blood
measurements and immune system stuff. :-( The alternative- of a small,
full computer like a beagleboard (check it out, it's pretty neat)
isn't that much of a hasttle. It's worth exploring.
 

I just want to see an iPhone app where I can say "I feel".... and a pull down list with a list of options or enter your own.

Isabel Walcott Draves

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Feb 17, 2010, 11:58:26 PM2/17/10
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try the bodybugg

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waleed

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Feb 21, 2010, 1:38:30 PM2/21/10
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I'd have to agree with Bryan, the iPhone's sensory capabilities are at
best 2 dimensional.
One app I've started playing around with though is Sleep Cycle:
http://www.lexwarelabs.com/sleepcycle/index.html
It uses the motion sensor to track your sleeping behaviour and wakes
you up when it determines you to be in the lightest point of sleep,
within a 30 minute time-radius, in order not to disturb a deep sleep
cycle. It certainly has parallels with those charts on
fennetic.net ... a sort of data driven way to hack your body, or at
least deconstruct it statistically.

Other kinds of "body-hacking" include dietary monitoring, and for that
I've used dailyburn+foodscanner with varying levels of success.
Nothing beats monitoring caloric intake like scanning barcodes of
regularly consumed food items.
Oh, and the whole GymFu line of apps, that also use the motion sensor
to get you doing more pullups/pushups/squats/crunches: http://www.gymfu.com/

"Getting this type of information without logging is key."

I guess as sensory dimensionality is added to devices like the iPhone,
this kind of thing is just a matter of time. Or, you can go the
Arduino route and add skip the latency of big business altogether:
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/01/26/found-footage-iphone-arduino-heartrate-monitor-humanapi/

Waleed.

On Feb 17, 11:58 pm, Isabel Walcott Draves <ihilb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> try the bodybugg
>
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> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Bryan Bishop <kanz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Andrew Hessel wrote:
> >> I don't think I've met Fenn in person.  Great data logging, love the
> >> graphical representation.  Getting this type of information without logging
> >> is key.  This ties in with pharma needs as well.
>
> > He's been building a wearable computer setup, in particular to keep
> > better track of himself. He has often talked about adding in
> > electrocardio data to his wearable computer, to at least get pulse
> > data, blood pressure, etc. There are other types of data I am sure he
> > would be interested in.
>
> > - Bryan
> >http://heybryan.org/
> > 1 512 203 0507
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