The Quantified Self Movement and What It Means for Employee Wellness

Today’s Agenda 1. Quantified Self Overview 2. Why This Is A Good Thing 3. Quantified Self Apps 4. Quantified Self Devices 5. What To Do With All This Data 6. What Does It Mean For Corporate Wellness?Copyright © 2012 ShapeUp, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Proprietary & Confidential 3

What Is Quantified Self? • Quantified Self is a movement to incorporate technology into data acquisition on aspects of a persons daily life in terms of inputs (e.g. food consumed, quality of surrounding air), states (e.g. mood, blood oxygen levels), and performance (mental and physical) • Tracking and measuring aspects of your life to find ways to make it better • Tracking calories with a mobile app to lose weight • Tracking physical activity with a pedometer to increase exercise • Tracking sleep time and quality to improve restfulnessCopyright © 2012 ShapeUp, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Proprietary & Confidential 5

Who Is Self Tracking? • 15% of internet users tracked weight, diet, exercise online • Women are more likely to do it than men • People are more likely to track after significant health change (pregnancy, weight gain/loss, smoking cessation)Data from www.pewinternet.org Copyright © 2012 ShapeUp, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Proprietary & Confidential 7

Some Benefits of Quantified Self • Learn your numbers • Baseline assessment, level of awareness • Gain unexpected insight • Pattern discovery, correlations • Form habits • Can become part of a routine or even addictive • Invite others to help you improve • Ability to send the results to friends, family, physicianCopyright © 2012 ShapeUp, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Proprietary & Confidential 11

Quantified Self Boosts Activity • The use of a pedometer is associated with significant increases in physical activity and significant decreases in body mass index and blood pressure. • Regular pedometer users significantly increased their physical activity by 2,491 steps per day more than control participants.http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=209526Copyright © 2012 ShapeUp, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Proprietary & Confidential 12

Quantified Self Boosts Weight Loss • Using an online tracker to count calories and receive personalized feedback more than doubled weight losses • The number of individuals achieving a weight loss of at least 5% more than tripledhttp://www.cfah.org/hbns/archives/viewSupportDoc.cfm?supportingDocID=965 Copyright © 2012 ShapeUp, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Proprietary & Confidential 13

Message From The Surgeon General “We cant look at health in isolation. Its not just in the doctors office. Its got to be where we live, we work, we play, we pray.” U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin, M.D.Copyright © 2012 ShapeUp, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Proprietary & Confidential 14

Quantified Self Mobile Apps

Incredible, Shrinking Technology "What used to take up a building now fits in my pocket, and what fits in my pocket will fit inside a blood cell in 25 years.” Ray Kurzweil, inventor and futuristCopyright © 2012 ShapeUp, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Proprietary & Confidential 32

What To Do With All This Data

What Does It Mean forCorporate Wellness?

Challenges • Cost Devices are often >$100 per piece • Accessibility Do all employees have a smartphone? • Infrastructure Can these work within corporate firewalls? • Privacy Do they comply with HIPAA and other guidelines?Copyright © 2012 ShapeUp, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Proprietary & Confidential 43

Summary

Key Takeaways From This Webinar  Quantifying your health can have many benefits  The Quantified Self movement is growing quickly  The rise is being fueled by technology in mobile apps, devices, sensors, GPS, photography, and more  These tools can improve the validity and measurability of your corporate wellness program  Cost and technology integration continue to represent major barriers to massive adoptionCopyright © 2012 ShapeUp, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Proprietary & Confidential

ShapeUp Offers A Total Solution Incentive Online Fitness Tracking & Coaches Management Activity & Nutrition Connected Challenges Devices Social Wellness PlatformCopyright © 2012 ShapeUp, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Proprietary & Confidential 47

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