2. Things I want to track
• Food and drink I consume
• Stress Level
• Ambient sound recordings with transcriptions
• General noise level around me at all times
• Ambient photo/video recording
• What people I am with at any given time
• Who I've communicated with each day
3. Things I want to track
• Biking – Strava, Runkeeper, Infer from GPS data
• Emotion tracking – from text posts on Twitter,
Facebook, etc
• Emotion tracking – explicit – emoome
• Ambient light levels and color temperature –
circadian rhythm analysis
– Philips wifi light bulb
– Flux mac app
• Track what I’m watching/listening to
– Apple TV, Netflix, Video games
– FM radio, Soundhound
4. Things I want to track
• Medical records – connect to mood, food
consumption
• Spending – credit cards
– Many memories encoded into the transaction
history
5. Friction
• Acquisition - Data collection
• Preservation - How do you connect two
sources together
• Access - How do you analyze the data and get
meaning out of it
• How do you manage sharing information
6. Interfaces
• What would the front-end look like to view
the raw data?
• Graphs, photos
• What do I want to know about the data?
• Social taboo – weight, taboo, health care
– What is the benefit of it not being a taboo?
9. Data Preservation
• Keep the original data
– What media is it on?
– What format is it in?
• Make versions of it accessible
– Screenshots
– Plain text
• Conversion vs Emulation
10. Data Collection Issues
• Hard to keep track of where all the data is
• Find an app that specializes in tracking one
thing, but then would forget about the app
that tracks your water intake
@skjonas
• For passive tracking, uses individual apps
• For manually entering things, uses Bento
(made by Filemaker), a general database app
