Existence is a platform that uses data from a user's devices, calendar, location history, and other sources to provide insights into how the user spends their time and create a visual timeline of their life, with the goal of helping users build strong habits and be more compassionate by reflecting on memories and patterns in their behavior over time. It analyzes environmental factors, health events, activities, locations and other metrics about a person's life to generate visualizations like timelines and cards to showcase milestones, moments, and statistics about their life.
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Existence Contemplative Computing Platform
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The quantified self meets your qualitative self.
Existence is a contemplative computing platform built on ethical design to
emphasize inward compassion to build strong habits and support your
behavior via your friends, family, peers, devices and memories.
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Ethical design
Can we design for kindness?
Contemplative Tech
Tech that engenders a deep
caring for others. Deepens
perspective.
Kind Tech
Systems that support a
compassion toward yourself
and behavior.
Value Tech
Systems that expose your
better self and values.
Calm Tech
Calm technology makes use of
our peripheral attention,
allowing us to be aware of
more things with less cognitive
overhead.
Disruptive Tech
Alerts, disturbs, pulls at
attention.
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Application
What if you could see your whole life?
Life Layers
• Environmental– What’s the weather while
your spending your time?
• Calendar– Who are you with, what are you
spending your time doing?.
• Biological– Your health events in line with
your day.
• Behavior– Are you stationary, active or in
transport.
• Location – Where are you and for how
long.
Life Cards
• Memories – Photos tagged with location,
environment, health events and entertainment.
• Milestones – Events that eclipsed your past
behaviors.
• Metrics – The stats behind your life.
• Moments – The data, memories, miles that
created the most magical days in your life.
Time Well Spent
• How are you spending your time?
• How will you spend your time?
• What will tomorrow bring?
• Are you active at home?
• Is work where you find the most peace?
• Do you drive distracted?
Your Life back.Welcome back to you.
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Life Timeline - Chronos
Travel through the past or the future.
Season or Time
See your days, expand your behavior,
see your future. What are Sundays like?
Searchable Behavior
Search for happiness, people, places,
food, entertainment!
Time Travel
Now, soon, the past and the future.
EXISTENCE
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Memories
Pictures w/ Data Tags
Life Timeline - Kairos
Your life should be celebrated, constantly.
Milestones
Gigantic Stats
Moments
2 Data Points & a Memory
Metrics
Charts and Graphs
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Existence Platform Release
World Wide - June 19, 2015 – San Francisco, CA
http://existence.io
Existence Application Preview
SXSW – March 12, 2015 – Austin, TX